Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had the American people again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...
Some people have argued that since Foster is such a threat as a runner, he should move to halfback. This is a necessarily shallow view because it discounts the factors of leadership and performance under pressure...
According to Reich, the original American consciousness thrived in innocent self-interest, dependent on a rather shallow faith in achievement through individual virtue. In the 20rh century the powerful but poorly understood forces of technology-the impersonal impulses toward efficiency and progress through scientific management-harnessed this consciousness. They spawned and nurtured the intimate association of government and big business which Reich calls the corporate state. They became the ultimate determinants of social value and the general welfare, of truth and happiness. They became God; the corporate state became the hand...
Mirror Image. The play is not against Communism but against tyranny, a condition that subsumes all isms. Nonetheless, it is a fierce rebuke to all those shallow-thinking fantasts who believed, early and late, that the Russian Revolution heralded a new dawn for mankind, as epitomized by Lincoln Steffens who said, "I have been over into the future and it works." Solzhenitsyn shows that life in the Soviet Union has been precisely the reverse. It is the mirror image of that abysmal past from which man has been trying to free himself for thousands of years: the enslavement of mind...
...waste into Tagonoura's waters. The catch of cherry-blossom prawns, a gourmet delicacy unique to the area, has been halved in recent years. Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 ft. to 18 ft.-too shallow for even small freighters...