Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, former President Carter's campaign strategy of attacking Reagan as too dumb and too dangerous to sit in the Oval Office is being borne out by the President's vacuous statements, his staff's clumsy coverup of gaffes, and the increasing alarm of his Republican "allies." Previously hailed as the Great Communicator, exuding amicability, confidence, and resourceful leadership. Reagan has emerged as a narrow-minded simpleton, impervious to practicable political bargaining and constructive suggestions. And the press is now hammering that point home...
...plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
Skocpol, now a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, called the report this week "a shameful document: evasive, vacuous and illogical...
...absolutely serious manner in which the authors go about propounding the most pointless ideas leads to pity for lives wasted in such vacuous banality...