Word: shallower
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...irony (yes, irony) of pop culture's crisis is that critics have spent many Britneyed, Rush Houred and Spy TVed years bemoaning a shallow culture suited to trivial times. Our war culture, if it comes to that, may well go both darker and lighter at the same time in response to today's troubles. It may even, in some perverse way, improve. But could anyone be blamed for counting the days until we can be so unfortunate as to live in shallow, trivial times again...
...land of plenty, we tend to treat everyday problems like major crises. Until Tuesday, the measure of Bush rested on whether he or the Democrats would be the first to open up a lockbox that doesn't even exist. The bar for his success was keeping the looming recession shallow and short...
...around that time that Rudy heard about a fourth plane. It had slammed into Somerset County, Pa., only two counties away from his home in Waynesburg. Today all the Marisas are grateful to be alive. As they know, it is only shallow men who discount luck. --By John Cloud...
...Shallow men believe in luck," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, but World Trade Center employees who happened to miss work on Sept. 11 must think him a fool. We heard these stories all week, and they gave us a national case of goose bumps: the bus from Staten Island missed for the first time in four years, the car that needed repairing, the long-debated trip to Israel taken last week that proved safer than staying home. Even the most rational person lists toward superstition after hearing the stories. Was there a reason? Is God making choices...
...land of plenty, we tend to treat everyday problems like major crises. Until Tuesday, the measure of Bush rested on whether he or the Democrats would be the first to open up a lockbox that doesn't even exist. The bar for his success was keeping the looming recession shallow and short...