Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berners sees the communal effort he leads, the hunting of children by parents, the attempts at understanding, as a "process," not a "circumstance" as the others do. What Calisher does not seem to realize is that she is guilty of the same thing. She creates a nicely literary shallow set of circumstances out of what should be a fully human process. She plays word games and symbol strategies with her middle-aged prilgrims, but forgets their supposedly real children entirely; they are but mythical objects of a quest...
...regressive for the Pope to decry abortion, adultery, permissiveness and pornography, a considerable number of people would choose to be regressive rather than embrace a shallow and bankrupt philosophy that would consider such distortions progress...
...copout of Tanner's ending becomes clear. To leave her unhappy, given her shallow personality and Tanner's feeble analysis would have been too heavy-handed given the film as it stands. To make his social criticism, she must be unhappy. To make his "artistic" statement, she must be happy and free. Neither solution is satisfactory...
There is almost too much here to digest at one reading. Harvard's reputation as a benevolent liberal institution is exposed as a shallow myth. There are no ivory towers at Harvard: the University is not somehow removed from the 'real world.' Endowed professorships in English and Music are financed by investments in corporations that exploit minorities pollute the air and engage is profitable imperialist ventures abroad...
...surprise to Social Critic Vance Packard. The song became popular, Packard believes, because it poignantly reflects the pain and yearning of a nation on the move. America has become a land of nomads, he says, a nation of men and women who are rootless, isolated, indifferent to community problems, shallow in personal relationships and afflicted with "unconnectedness and a lonely coldness...