Word: vapid
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...short-sighted man, this desired inclination toward what is commonly called "world peace" may seem a thing, like the tropism of green twigs toward sunlight, so natural and to-be-expected as to render its discussion and "promotion" rather vapid solemnities...
...thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
...beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous and flat. The best publishing ethics has not yet forbidden this type of matter. Occasionally it turns up in the most respected journals. The New York Times is an example. Current History, a monthly journal of events, belongs to the Times group. Recently an article...
...Laird's observations are accurate, the intrepid spirit who dares to undergo four gruelling years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember of his past life is a somewhat garbled version of "Mr.--is requested to call...
...universities who look flippantly at life and its duties, and consider the function of education to be merely of adding to the gayety of nations. What purpose you can serve by such silly observations passes the understanding of one who is, happily free from the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere Fortunately, no one taxes Harvard seriously these days, and as the old saying goes. "You can always fell a Harvard man but you can not fell him much." F. L. Hoffman Dean of Advanced Department Babson Institute