Word: trite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue" is what one needs, the censoring of Bloom County is as big as they get. Everyone loves to laugh at the Moral Majority, but is is scary indeed when the left--the guardians of free speech--choose the same tactic. Certainly the offending strip was boring, even trite, on the day in question, but its moral value was not for The Crimson to judge. The hypocrisy of such a stand for press self-censorship is terrifying indeed. The fact that Harvard students responded as they did suggest a rather healthy grasp of important issues. The Crimson has every right...
Martin and O'Brien's nicknames exemplify the book's trite symbolism. At the book's start "A.M." is the pure, Catholic woman, P.M. the lecherous man. A.M., like day, represents good and opens Chicago politics to the light of public scrutiny, while P.M. is a reporter on the take, leaving the dealings of this sponsors in darkness and symbolizing the evil of the evening. While P.M. is sexually conquering A.M., evil is running rampant in the O'Brien administration. Kennedy, a professor of psychology, manages to mix pop psychology and symbols in with sex, violence and political corruption...
...Dick does not fail to deliver. Leaders, a compendium of his reminiscences and musings on statesman he has known, irritates because it is self-servicing, sketchy, and often trite. More often than not, Nixon's attempt to regurgitate and refine his staunchly...
This, one can easily see, is the kind of talk which could depopulate a country faster than any terrorist organization. It also contributes to the whole work's effort to make everything Timerman touches trite and annoying...
...result is disastrous. The first story is insignificant and shallow. The second, trite. The third, unfulfilled. The fourth, pitiable...