Word: shallowing
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...Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial, the spiritual, the primitive and the archetypal as sources of inspiration...
...respect. When they make a triangle with their fingertips and thumbs and say, "What I find deeply troubling..." or "I fear I take a less sanguine view..." everybody listens, brows furrowed. Go around acting as if everything's wonderful, though, and you'll be dismissed as an ignorant lightweight, shallow and simpleminded. "What, me worry?" was Alfred E. Neuman's motto, not Thomas Mann...
...slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this is really a pretty shallow--and maybe unseemly--way for a grownup to make a living...
...evening before June 5, I will again make the pilgrimage to Widener Library simply to experience the exit: to pause for a moment at the top of the shallow, grand steps and consider Memorial Church across the way in its perfect symmetry. To consider the many who have preceded me on this hallowed ground, and the many who will follow. And to remember why I am leaving...
With two outs Wills blooped a single into shallow left field, and a misplay by the left fielder allowed Kreuder to score. Cupp then recorded her second RBI of the game with a single into right plating Wills...