Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apartment, Days is shallow and over-simplified. Caricature is substituted for character. "Let's full it out of a hat," says Joe Clay's boss, "and see if it stops." Although Lemmon and Remick are convincing performers, their roles are crippled with cliches, and become not universal, but superficial. "Do you know why I've lost five jobs in the last four years?" Lemmon complains. "No why?" saks Remick. "Booze," says Lemmon...
...allusions to weapons, jewelry and coins made in the Chalcidice-and guessed that this indicated a sizable local lode of metal. He reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally homed in on a region known as Skouries (meaning "deposits of rust") which had the typical copper field's tree-barren look. By careful exploration, he located the ancient mines...
Spread over miles of desert near Albuquerque, shallow disks of special plastic material bake in the sun. Connected by wire to a central laboratory, they are scintillometers set out to watch for enormously powerful cosmic rays that smack into atoms in the high atmosphere and, as a result of the crash, spray the earth's surface with millions of subatomic particles. Despite the minute size of his quarry, Physicist John Linsley of M.I.T., who operates the ray trap, reported a tremendous catch: a shower of 50 billion particles...
...hand and play it with your right." Many believe that Arosemena is mastering himself as well as the political fiddle, and the odds are improving that he may even make it through to the 1964 elections. Once curbed by Arosemena, the far left turned out to be a remarkably shallow and ineffectual clique; the army, said Conservative Party Leader Francisco Salazar, "has no strong leader, and it doesn't want to get mixed up in politics." And even those most disillusioned with Arosemena's personal shortcomings are not anxious to overturn...
...problem of research is a most important one for the HCUA and the necessity for preparing detailed and thoughtful reports cannot be overemphasized. If the HCUA should become, as the old Student Council certainly was, a collection of shallow political opportunists, striving for headlines and publicity instead of service to the College, the accomplishments of the past year and the hopes of the HCUA's founders will be destroyed...