Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Advise and Consent. Equipped with an all-but-complete set of political chessmen, the shallow but suspenseful Broadway adaptation of the bestselling novel pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto...
...most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth must play; and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism. --Harvard CRIMSON, March...
Advise and Consent. Although too obviously melodramatic and politically shallow, the adaptation of the bestselling. novel about a Cabinet nominee's battle for Senate confirmation is both brisk and suspenseful...
...that would have gone for naught had it not been for the towering performance of Judith Anderson, the fine one of Maurice Evans. With blood-red hair and blood-red voice as she told her shallow-hearted thane to screw his courage to the sticking place, Judith Anderson was so evilly and essentially Lady Macbeth that she seemed to have been waiting there among the Scottish battlements 900 years for NBC to come and shoot...
...explanation for this failure might be that Mr. MacDonald has not entirely extricated himself from "the agreeable ooze of the Midcult swamp." The great, vaulting middlebrow sin is inaccuracy borne of shallow generalization (itself generally the result of ignorance); and this sin Mr. MacDonald freely, even joyfully commits. His first essay was full of misty historical-sociological speculations on High Culture and Mass Culture; his second though not as abundant in middlebrow historiography is still decidedly fertile. One longish quotation will suffice: "The turning point in our culture was the Civil War, whose aftermath destroyed the New England Tradition almost...