Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business-a dying man's soul-is the really important issue. In his journey-toward-death, Johnny does encounter moments of compassion, but the charity is as shallow as the courage that goes with it: those who will not turn him over to the police will risk nothing for him, either...
This is no more than the bare skeleton of Under the Volcano. Its flesh & blood is Author Lowry's attempt to set down the detailed workings of the two brothers' minds-the one strangled by disillusion and alcohol, the other frustrated and disgusted by the shallow halfheartedness of dubious humanitarianism. Interjecting themselves among these struggles are the brothers' tangled feelings for Yvonne, in which love, brotherly loyalty, hope crushed by fatal exhaustion and pessimism add to their already tortured consciences...
Well, TIME, you did it again-a new low for Man of the Year-a visionless man playing blindman's buff-a parochial politician belligerent in substituting shallow ineptitude for a plan to create markets of good will and mutual trade outlets between the nations of the world, which alone are true basis of peace among peoples...
...wide, has thick walls up to 40-ft. high built of basalt columns laid crosswise, rather like the logs of a log cabin. Huge rough steps lead to a courtyard. Inside is another wall, and inside that a stone-roofed vault. The man-made islets are separated by shallow canals, some of them choked with tumbled blocks. The citadel itself is in fair condition, though so overgrown with jungle that few details are visible...
...Teddy Roosevelt made a shallow dive in a primitive...