Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of Kurt Vonnegut, who became a cult figure in the late '60s after enduring years of hard-earned obscurity. A growing army of high school and college readers began proclaiming him a deep thinker, at about the same time that critics started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug ("So it goes") have probably found the guru they deserve. At the same time, Vonnegut...
...problems with the concept of decadence is that it has such a long moral shoreline, stretching from bleak and mountainously serious considerations of history to the shallow places where ideas evaporate 30 seconds after they splash. For all the range of its uses, decadence is a crude term. It houses fallacies. People think of decadence as the reason for the collapse of Rome, but the point is arguable. Rome at the height of its imperial power was as morally depraved as in its decline. Perhaps more...
...professional deck hands, a cook and one or two apprentices, plus himself as captain. She has no engine, but will carry a 15-ft. boat with a diesel that can serve to nose her up to a dock or through a narrow channel. Because of the Leavitt's shallow draft (6½ ft.), she has a big advantage in direct loading and unloading of cargo that originates near the water. Ackerman's first load will be 150 tons of lumber and building materials being shipped from Quincy, Mass., to Haiti by Builder William Duane. Because the Leavitt will...
...spending by individuals on all sorts of goods and services accounts for fully two-thirds of the nation's gross national product-far more than spending by Government and business combined-a sharp retrenchment in purchases of autos, houses and other big-ticket items would surely deepen the shallow recession that many economists believe has already begun...
Freshman Week is like a bad simile--self-conscious, strained, shallow, you want to say everything, but end up conveying only your desperation. You enter Harvard Yard and think, "Well, this is the beginning of a new chapter in my life," and then try to write it without understanding the setting, the characters or the tone. But if that's too abstract, let's put it another way--you're like a large, black dog in a sea of blind porpoises. No, a jellybean nestled in the center of a goose-liver pate...