Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advise and Consent. Although too obviously melodramatic and politically shallow, the adaptation of the bestselling. novel about a Cabinet nominee's battle for Senate confirmation is both brisk and suspenseful...
...that would have gone for naught had it not been for the towering performance of Judith Anderson, the fine one of Maurice Evans. With blood-red hair and blood-red voice as she told her shallow-hearted thane to screw his courage to the sticking place, Judith Anderson was so evilly and essentially Lady Macbeth that she seemed to have been waiting there among the Scottish battlements 900 years for NBC to come and shoot...
...some of them writers of great skill, have composed actual middlebrow works. MacDonald lists Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, John Brown's Body, The Old Man and The Sea, and, inevitably, J.B. The chief characteristic of middlebrow literature, he contends, lies in the presumptuous exploitation of certain shallow "universals...
...explanation for this failure might be that Mr. MacDonald has not entirely extricated himself from "the agreeable ooze of the Midcult swamp." The great, vaulting middlebrow sin is inaccuracy borne of shallow generalization (itself generally the result of ignorance); and this sin Mr. MacDonald freely, even joyfully commits. His first essay was full of misty historical-sociological speculations on High Culture and Mass Culture; his second though not as abundant in middlebrow historiography is still decidedly fertile. One longish quotation will suffice: "The turning point in our culture was the Civil War, whose aftermath destroyed the New England Tradition almost...
...into space and reaches 80 miles up, he will hear alarming sounds: the sharp pings of cosmic dust particles hitting the skin of his capsule. Harvard Astronomer Professor Fred L. Whipple last week told an Air Force space conference at San Antonio that the earth is surrounded by a shallow but unexpectedly dense cloud of dust that can be detected only by the noise that it makes when it hits space vehicles equipped with listening devices...