Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were never so lucky before, and they certainly were far less adept. But to judge from MacDonald's collection, four centuries have yielded some intelligent and ingenious parodies as well as a lot of tripe. Wordsworth, Browning, and Swinburne, have paid well for their more curious mannerisms of style. J. K. Stephen cautiously and respectfully parodies Browning in a poem of "sincere flattery" that ends...
...busy handling his replies. For the 20 million members of the Ismaili Moslem sect face challenging times, and their new Imam was determined to lead them well. "All that really matters for me is my work.'' says 23-year-old Karim Aga Khan. "All the rest is tripe...
Strangers When We Meet (Bryna-Quine; Columbia) discusses adultery, but instead of probing to the heart of the matter, it settles for pure tripe. Its outlook is expressed in the observation: "Anyplace you've got a housewife, you've got a potential mistress. We're slobs in our pajamas-shaving at home-but next door we're heroes...
...reminded of the old proverb: 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.' " TV COMMERCIALS: "Why should an actress, no matter how beautiful or talented, know more about an icebox than my wife?" RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS: "Most of the so-called devotional material is shallow and meaningless tripe that makes me sick to my stomach." THEOLOGIANS: "Many influential theologians of our day have moved from the ruins of a devastated Europe to the libraries of the theological schools and have carried defeatism into these sacred precincts-locking themselves up in their little cells with their egos, their textbooks...