Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal viewpoint is not nearly as well represented as the conservative in the registration handouts. This is in accordance with the lesser activity of the liberals. The HYDC newsletter states little except vapid idealistic purposes. It reports mistakenly that Senator Church will speak here this fall...
...what is Mr. Levin to do in this "workaday world?" There are those who belive the masses of the world are guided by greed, power, emotion; those who believe that the "workaday world" is dull, vapid, inessential. There are those who believe that "the world of words," rather than a tissue of shadows and reflected passions," is the only source of intensity, vitality, truth. If, indeed, as Mr. Jencks says, the world is irrational, of what use is the constructive mind, save perhaps to depict it, to "breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe...
...unbusinesslike merchant-who built his own sailboat at the age of twelve. Five years later he enrolled in Robert Henri's art school on Manhattan's 57th Street. Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School." Instead of the vapid, idealistic studio pictures then in favor, the Ash Can painters showed what they had seen on the streets, in bold style. Hopper found their approach to subject matter agreeable, though their dark, flamboyant technique was not for him. "The only real influence I've ever had," he says...
...into a world that is round. In the end, after her mother and the boy next door smooth off some of the rough edges, she does. Betty Lou Keim, as the girl, is too convincing a little stinker to generate much pathos, and Ginger Rogers is too vapid a mother to rouse much sympathy. But the acting is competent, the big scenes affecting. In fact, the whole thing is a lot better than most of the drama the moviegoer could see at home...
...voter but tame, often planted, questions. When TV shares a general news conference, says New York Times Midwest Correspondent Richard Johnston, the session turns from "an attempt to get at the real news into staged nonsense." Apart from crowding, heat and noise, experienced newsmen bristle at TV's vapid questions, often designed only to get a commentator into...