Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeannie: We were chosen to come here for our vibrancy of thinking, for our impressive and interesting thoughts. Harvard students engage with each other on this absolutely superficial, vacuous level...
...disagree with the generalizations about the level of interaction. I am a first-year student, and I find that there are students that I engage with on a vacuous level because that...
...because they're vacuous...
Despite its publisher's hope that Purdy's book will hit it big with thoughtful twentysomethings starved for meaning in a vacuous time, For Common Things is an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor. It is not the accessible pop polemic some reviewers have made it out to be but an achingly ambitious manifesto from a very young young man who happens to be, alarmingly often, eloquent beyond his years. Insufferably smug, however, Purdy is not, particularly when it comes to his anointment as an instant wise man for the millennium. "Irony," he elegantly...
...Lucas into gossiping about his own characters, but his merchandising franchise brings his universe even lower: the army of laserbolt statistics and shallow Silmarillion-esque histories that he has spawned have chanined and tempted him into lame storytelling. The entire franchise now seems to bend over backwards, ugly and vacuous, in order to provide all these salivating "fans" with satisfaction...