Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While "Love Story" audience participation does not include black leather attire and "Time Warp" pelvic thrusts, the Crimson Key's ribald remarks about McGraw's hair style and O'Neal's vacuous mannerisms have also hardened into student institutions...
...most attention was the debate between pro- and antitechnology alter egos; my skeptical side won. I'd also published attacks on the use of computers in school. Parents plead for a decent education in the basics, reading and writing and history and arithmetic, and too many teachers respond with vacuous fun and games with computers...
...implored Professor Kilson, "What can we Americans do to soothe our collective soul?" Daniels takes a 25 year-old who denies any personal guilt for the slavery of 130 years ago and he attacks that person as one might attack a Patrick Buchanan. Kilson calls my letter "morally vacuous...
...toward other human beings be considered morally restored to the humanitarian side of the Christian value system and community--can very well remain issues we disagree on. Such serious and awesome intellectual matters do not require a final answer, Mr. Vanke. I do, however, grant Jeffrey Vanke his morally vacuous formulation--his intellectual right to it--when he observes that "I do have a choice....There is no 'reciprocity imperative,' at least concerning slavery." To each his own...Mr. Vanke. --Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government
...THIS WOMAN IS ON THE VERGE, I SINcerely hope she is teetering on the brink of obscurity, where she belongs. I am amazed that otherwise intelligent and accomplished politicos can fawn over a person of such small discernment, limited experience, vacuous observation and rare rudeness. JANICE PETERSON Santa Barbara, California...