Word: shallowing
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What keeps this book from being more than an interesting and sometimes affecting experiment is Updike's unwillingness to cut himself off from the conventions of realism. The half-hearted word games, the tired ecclesiastical jokes, the shallow plot, are all consistent with a vision of Marshfield as a frustrated author given his big chance, but they are unnecessary. Marshfield's anomalous faith gives him a depth, and a dignity, that makes the rest extraneous and distracting. The mediocre sermon early in the month is realistically valid, but artistically wrong. As something written to a preacher in a desert motel...
...Schuller's formula for church success consists of five points: "Accessibility, service, visibility, possibility thinking and excess parking." Some churchmen find that too shallow. "This church doesn't take religion seriously enough," complains Bob Merkle, the director of a counseling service who works with the church. "To fit in around here you have to be compulsively cheerful." The erudite Theology Today has been debating whether Schuller's message is a cultural copout...
...sometimes strays from his chronicler's path to give us more autobiography than he should. The gossarrier good times at the magazine, the lunches at the Algonquin, the practical jokes and graffiti don't need any more depth than Gill provides, but his life can't have been as shallow as he gives us to believe...
Because of the loss of Hobbs from the sabre squad, Marion has moved sophomore Major from the foll to the sabre. Major has some sabre experience and will help to shore up the shallow sabre ranks...
...skiers had just finished a week of training on the steep slopes, of Cannon Mountain, and were surprised by the shallow pitch of the slope chosen for the giant slalom. While they had been skiing well in Hampshire, the hard edging techniques that they acquired were not the fastest way down the flat OS course. Raines, Adler and sophomore Peter Anton finished a disappointing 29th, 31st, and 38th respectively. Peter Andersen of Dartmouth sporting a skin tight silvery blue downhill suit won the race with a technically superb...