Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appeal to Anxieties. A prevailing argument was voiced by Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who dismissed the measure as "a shallow appeal to the emotions and anxieties of good Americans, who are weary of seven years of war." He contended that the Senate ought to express its confidence that President Nixon was moving toward "peace with honor, rather than retreat and defeat." Some antiwar critics of the Administration cast negative votes in the belief that a withdrawal deadline would hinder rather than help peace negotiations. The defeat of the amendment cleared the way for easy Senate passage of a $19.2 billion...
...satire is uncomplicated, and somewhat shallow. The revolutionaries we see are bourgeoir who have been slighted by their class: pompous intellectuals and cafe bums. The fringes of society, suffering malaise of the soul, ransoming their dreams to the mythical revolution. Brecht in his later years regretted the immaturity of the play, the worldly cynicism, the debunking of all ideals without suggestion of where society's problems come from and how they are resolved...
...recently retrieved from a depth of 1,400 feet, where it had been lodged between two coal seams many millions of years old. It looked like a fresh chip. In 1968, a search party dug up the body of Charles Francis Hall, an explorer who was buried in a shallow grave at Greenland in 1871. He was almost recognizable...
Gradually, the full horror dawned on Peruvians. "Our losses," commented one newspaper, "will be greater than if we had lost a war." Indeed, officials speculated that by the time the last body is laid in a shallow grave and the last missing Indian villager is counted, the death toll might reach 50,000. If so, it will have been the deadliest earthquake in the recorded history of Latin America...
British Director John Boorman is a film maker of stylistic skill and visual flare. He transformed a more or less routine police thriller into Point Blank, a free-for-all exercise in cinematic pyrotechnics. His Hell in the Pacific was a stunningly filmed but intellectually shallow allegory about man's inhumanity to man. His new film, Leo the Last, appears to have been made with a greater degree of directorial freedom than he has ever had; he even shares screen credit for the script. The result is a stunning but simplistic political parable that might have benefited from...