Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students at Stanford University are attempting to organize a nationwide movement to convince the magazine to dump its current rankings system. The students have attacked the ratings as shallow and subjective but dangerous because so many students and administrators take them seriously...
...debate that featured a steady exchange of character assassination would probably be more interesting to watch than a sequel to last week's debates. But the nation should not have to choose between mudslinging and shallow saccharine platitudes. Instead, Clinton and Dole could actually help the American people by responding candidly to some of the legitimate concerns about their candidacy...
...most melodic and novice-friendly. In the resonant key of G major, Wispelway's cello soared as he tenderly executed the audible and pleasant arc up to the final G of the prelude. Particularly impressive was his rendering of the rocket fast Courante in the second suite. Shallow, Lamaze-style puffs were audible as Wispelwey frantically kept pace with the technical demands of double and triple stopped crotched chords in an actually quite introspective piece...
...been duly appreciated, however, there are still some important questions to be asked. For example: why this poem, when the music and action have almost nothing to do with the text's mood and meaning? It quickly becomes clear that the spirit of "The Hollowmen" is based on a shallow, but understandable, misinterpretation of the poem, whose repetition of certain apocalyptic words and images--"broken," "death," "dream," "hollow"--can make it seem merely psychedelic, the precursor of Jim Morrison's lyrics...
...word university comes from the Latin word for whole. The word diversity, on the other hand, stems from the word divert, which means "to turn aside from a course or direction," "to distract" and "to amuse or entertain." Diversity is as false, fragmentary and shallow as liberal education is true, whole and deep. Let us not be diverted from what is good by what is fashionable...