Word: shallowing
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...With the years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success - charm, acting, oratory - have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980 - and it turned out that he meant them - and he wrote most...
...Klein described the President as a political pitchman, dedicated to conning the public, ignoring criticism. Bush dismisses contradictory feedback and reinforces his original message by repeating the same talking points. The President and his handlers know very well that there are ample numbers of customers willing to buy their shallow rhetoric. Simplicity trumps relevance much too often, and there are far too many uncritical Americans who remain susceptible to the White House sales job. ANDREW CLARKE Harleysville, Penn...
...silencing of Asian women, though the Sanrio Corporation explains that it is because Hello Kitty speaks from her heart, not her mouth.The western assessment of “kawaii” (roughly translated as “cute” in English) is largely negative, often described as a shallow interest based on avoidance of adulthood...
...successful murderer all the attributes of a Nietzschean superman. And the American university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...
...underestimate it too. The highly popular show, which signs off after 10 seasons on May 6, has not inspired the kind of cultural hand wringing about its existential meaning that Seinfeld did--despite NBC's hubristically plugging Friends as the "best comedy ever"--and its proud-to-be-shallow attitude may be the reason. Beginning in the Norman Lear 1970s, we decided that great sitcoms must not be simply funny; they must also be important. That is, they must court controversy (All in the Family). They must document social progress (Mary Tyler Moore). They must have a sense of satire...