Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel, then, is wish-fulfillment, and on strictly literary terms, it has all the limitations of slight and shallow romance. But far more than most novels, Maurice demands to be considered on extra-literary terms. It was, after all, an extra-literary factor that delayed its publication these fifty-seven years and an extra-literary spirit that compelled Forester to write in the first place. It is a social and personal document, and the society and person are interesting enough to deserve our attention...
...photography at the Carpenter Center treats couples of Harvard Square and the Cambridge Common--girls and boys, girls and girls, black on white, black on black. Yet whether All-American or all-freak, each duo stares right through the viewer: and bubbled backgrounds and textured doors set off a shallow depth of field, but a great depth of feeling...
...victory-at New Bern, N.C., in 1862-simply because the Confederates were taken by surprise by his aggressive imbecility in storming well-protected defenses. On other occasions he was less lucky. At the battle of Antietam, for example, he spent hours trying to take a bridge to cross a shallow creek that his men could easily have waded. Burnside's delay cost the Union a victory that might have changed the course of the war. True to form in such matters, Burnside was subsequently promoted to head the Army of the Potomac...
...Burns was promoted to the Fed chairmanship in January 1970, he mellowed, but he also became increasingly independent professionally. In his W.C. Fields tones, he spoke up?to the President, to Congress, to the public. Disenchanted by the Administration, Burns feels that some of the President's advisers are shallow, even deceitful men. He has no such criticism of Shultz; their differences only involve economics...
...made environment. He inspects his chosen topic -usually architecture or mass culture or both-with unblinkered eyes. Then he devastates all conventional wisdom about it. His new book, Los Angeles (Harper & Row; $6.95), is no exception. Spurning the popular pastime of condemning Los Angeles as an eyesore of shallow pretensions, Banham raises a rare intellectual voice in its favor. "Los Angeles does not get the attention it deserves," he writes. "It gets attention, but it's the attention Sodom and Gomorrah received, primarily a reflection of other peoples' bad consciences...