Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also plays the unpossessed sequences with an overflowing wholesomeness, while Huxley discloses her character as both bitter and shallow...
...Sorensen, nothing is more unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...
...most big-beat groups court disaster if they sing with their live voices unelectrified. Pity the poor Beatles. When they appeared on last week's Ed Sullivan Show, one of the very few programs that do not allow hp sync, their cry of Help! was just that-a shallow peeping lost in the din of their electric guitars...
...Contest. Dewa and Chhamb were swiftly captured by the armored column, which rolled forward some eight miles against light resistance and halted by the banks of the shallow Munawar Tawi River. The Indian counterattack came from the sky-28 British-made Vampire jets bombed and strafed the armored force, destroying an estimated ten tanks before Pakistani supersonic F-86 Sabres streaked to the rescue. It was no contest: four of the slower Indian planes were shot down, and the rest scattered...
...month and exhibits a certain chic-which may only mean wearing a necktie." Adds Von der Groeben with obvious relief: "We haven't had a scandal since the casino opened in 1948. We have yet to hear any shots in the night, and the Ahr River is too shallow to drown yourself...