Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of Catholicism in America, particularly in New England, has not been peaceful. In a land where attacks of nativism have been as frequent as the common cold, Catholicism has frequently been regarded as foreign and its adherents as mindless followers of an alien despot. When the Pope, following the example of the monarchs of Europe, sent over a block of marble to be included in the Washington Monument under construction in the 1840s, an angry mob threw the gift into the Potomac. Closer to home, an equally unpleasant mob burned to the ground the Ursuline Convent and made...
PTST, which distributes 200,000 monthly study guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly...
...always been with Patti Smith, from Horses to Radio Ethiopia to Easter and even to Wave. If not present in pure noise, it is present in her whimpering and babelogue. Listen carefully. Behind the music of Patti Smith--behind her mesmerizing God-licks and Christ soliloquys--the seemingly mindless energy of punk is made indelibly clear and mindful...
...young" in-order to convey the naivete the original production lacked. The Loeb version has added a few direct confrontations between Candide and Voltaire, in which the character and his creator discuss the manifestations of God's will in the world: this dialogue prevents the musical from becoming a mindless circus...
...that the film is unflawed. There are moments when the film gets carried away with itself. In "How Can People Be So Cruel," mother and angelic, teary eyed three-year old too-loudly protest to the breadwinning hulk who has left them for hedonistic diversion with the mindless Annie Golden, pregnant with yet another teary eyed mulatto. Annie advises the abandoned mother not to be so uptight, we all love each other, it's cool...But even these gushing scenes are appropriate to the rhythm of levity and humor, and don't really deserve scathing criticism...