Word: vapidness
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...that schooling begin here and now: high-caste persons are categorically not supposed to be vapid or unintelligent. And if they are those things, they keep them hidden. Scene makes a public spectacle of both traits. Its supposed finesse, rather like its pixels, blurs upon close inspection...
...about Internet governance, and China could better censor websites that contain words such as “liberty” or “Tiananmen Square.” Luckily, the usual gang of anti-Americans didn’t succeed at the Summit. Instead, there were a few vapid bureaucratic proclamations about healing the technology gap between rich and poor nations by bridging the “digital divide” (a phrase so overused that it, too, may require an acronym before long). So the Internet remains in the hands of George.WWW.Bush’s American Empire...
...their own words, “that’s the way it is.”—Henry M. CowlesJesus of SuburbiaGreen Day Green Day seem to want nothing more than to be taken seriously these days, after a decade of alienating their early fans with vapid pop punk. This insneeriority complex has played itself out in their recent videos. For “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” the band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia...
...further and offer up a possible solution: The University should de-randomize housing and give rising sophomores greater say in choosing their social communities. At one point in the not-so-distant past “What House are you in?” wasn’t a vapid question. Adams was artsy. Eliot was snooty. Lowell was brainy. Mather was jock-y. Sure, there are potential problems with racial self-segregation and intra-house homogeneity, but flattening these wrinkles with the iron of randomization was a quick and ultimately careless fix, one that has resulted largely...
...Heteronormative” is a peculiar (some would say vapid) invention that does not yet pack the rhetorical punch “homophobia” does, largely because the idea that underlies it is so absurd on the face of things...