Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Floridians should listen to Marjory Stoneman Douglas about the preservation of the Everglades [Jan 31]. The loss of that fragile and unique land not only endangers the wild creatures dependent upon it, but will eventually destroy the fresh-water supply of southern Florida. Fresh water flowing through the shallow Everglades prevents seawater from entering the system. As the delicate balance is disrupted, the water will become more saline and, finally, unusable...
...what does it actually mean when one finds somebody responsible for an act because he should have known what would happen? He is not imputing stupidity; the person would probably be let off the hook for merely behaving stupidly. Is he implying gross incompetence or a shallow carelessness? Perhaps, but these contentions, too, lessen the degree of personal culpability. No, when someone in authority is told that he ought to have anticipated a disaster, it means that the grand total of his professional experience and knowledge demanded, beyond reasonable doubt, that he behave differently than he did. Indeed...
...other nonregistrants, the new law may provide an incentive to overcome indifference, or oversight, or vague, shallow objections, and comply with the law. In the end, the federal action is legitimate way of enforcing Selective Service law--by denying government financial support to those who defy the government's laws--and it is an effort in which Harvard should not meddle...
...undertaking. The huge cast is, with very few exceptions, able and often exceptional. Mitchum, overaged and overweight as he is, is real and rocklike. As the actor says, "Pug sort of functions as a pylon at an air race. Everything revolves around him." Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent brings to the part of Byron...
...most part, the authors who have analyzed Johnson's life in light of this puzzle have produced shallow, incomplete answers--a succession of talky, pseudo-psychoanalytic books that attribute his obscure and confusing sides to mother-love, or father-hatred, or a desire to enforce the ethic of the Alamo upon an Eastern Establishment he secretly envied...