Word: shallowing
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...Shallow Gesture. In response to criticism, Davis has issued a series of open letters to friends and parishioners, arguing that his policies and actions have been much misunderstood. In one, he smoothly explained why he had asked a young Negro girl to wait a while before joining. At the time, a resolution condemning the segregationist policies...
National City was scheduled for debate at the Disciples' annual convention; had the church accepted her then, he explained, it would have seemed "an artificial, shallow gesture." Davis also points out that National City for years has operated an integrated summer-vacation Bible school for neighborhood children, and last year sponsored a summer program under Project Head Start...
...focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...
There is at least one biography of Lenin in each of these categories. Robert Payne created a mammoth animal, The Life and Death of Lenin, which is seductively readable, though not always reliable history. David Shub's Lenin is a plant whose roots are a bit shallow, since it was written without the benefit of recently discovered documentary material. Louis Fisher's book is definitely right, but it's just a middle-sized stone. Now Adam Ulam has written a boulder...
...which men such as Hickock and Smith, with IQs of 130, will continue to destroy themselves and others. It is the sort of survey which makes the Police Gazette, criminologists' case histories, liberal weeklies' temporiz- ing, and the babbling reportage of slicksters such as Tom Wolfe, seem like very shallow voices...