Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, at times, Updike's virtuosity leads to excess that smothers meaning and clogs the reader's senses as when he writes of "the shallow amber depths where the lemon slice like an embryo swam." That is a bowl of soup...
...best in a volume called Olinger Stories-Olinger being "audibly a shadow of Shillington," Updike wrote, and yet something other. "The surrounding land is loamy, and Olinger is haunted-hexed, perhaps-by rural memories, accents and superstitions. It is beyond the western edge of Megalopolis, and hangs between its shallow hills enchanted, nowhere, anywhere; there is no place like it. Olinger is a state of mind, of my mind, and it belongs entirely...
...Crimson scratched out its only run in the third inning. Second baseman Dick Manchester doubled to center and John Ignacio sent him home with a single to shallow left field...
Annie Girardoux is eloquent as Catherine, the almost-middle-aged woman who is old enough to understand Robert, and yet so much younger than Candice, the shallow, suave worldling. Catherine reminds one of Julie Christie in Billy Liar--a woman so loving that she will sacrifice her love to her man's happiness...or his whim...
...common defense. The government responds scathingly to simplistic, frustrated placards of anti-war demonstrators, but does not respond to thoughtful dissent by men like Galbraith, Kennan, or Schlesinger. And the Harvard Administration similarly responds only to dissent about parietals as if it were all shallow adolescent whining. The government says dialogue with its critics is worthless; and Harvard administrators say that the parietals issue is "boring...