Word: mcdonaldization
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...titles in a row, word out of Philadelphia and other basketball havens has it that the Quakers may be in for a little trouble this time around it, but this has yet to be proven. With John Engles, towering Henry Johnson, Mark Lenetto, and sophomore Kevin McDonald, an off year may have to be put off a year...
Reeves seems to enjoy thumping them too much to quit, but his book exudes a pessimism about politicians as sour as the west wind from Jersey City. Like television, McDonald's restaurants and much else in American life, Reeves laments, electoral politics nowadayses geared less toward producing quality than ensuring blandness. He sees fewer capable leaders-even fewer gifted scalawags-and more dull, "least objectionable" alternatives: more Jerry Fords. Says Reeves: "I have seen the future, and it scares the hell...
...typical of our time and culture to see people groping for spirituality in such an "American" way. Pay your money as well as a minimal amount of time and thinking and-presto! Relaxation and maybe even a little semi-enlightenment. This McDonald's of spirituality only seems to contribute more to the general plastic atmosphere around us. Must our inner experiences be as shallow as our outer ones...
...cell adjoined a similar one occupied by Emily Harris; the two women talked and watched a black-and-white TV set in the hallway. They traded reading material, including The Golden Notebook, a complex novel by Doris Lessing about self-definition. Sheriff John D. McDonald Jr. said that the two were model prisoners. "They do what they're told, and they've put no demands...
LAWN FLAMINGOS, McDonald's, split-level late Spanish-American gauche, all have become such standard anathemas--purgative scapegoats in a hundred late-night conversations--that their implications have ceased to be aesthetic and are now political. They are obligatory codewords to be randomly dropped and floridly condemned as a means of mutual identification...