Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian producers, SPAB and Regulation No. 1 make priorities more a matter of life-&-death than ever. But from the new system they may expect a break that Ed Stettinius' aimless methods never provided. Donald Nelson, who will run priorities for SPAB, believes that it is as important morale-wise to keep civilian supplies and factories going (at least in part) as it is to get guns built. At week's end SPAB played with the idea of determining minimum requirements of consumer industries first, allotting the remainder to Army, Navy and Lend-Lease-just the opposite...
...reporter, Roger Adams (Mr. Grant), and the music-store salesgirl, Julie (Miss Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...
...despair, his father put X in a mental hospital. He was diagnosed as a psychopathic personality, but found technically quite sane. So in a few weeks he was released, and instantly the series of wild and apparently aimless folly began again...
...around a good deal by the learned doctors. In The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Cleckley tried to show a class of psychopaths which differs clearly from neurotic alcoholics, psychoneurotics, criminal sex offenders, ordinary criminals, differs also from obvious psychotics or lunatics. The mark of his class is an apparently aimless search for disaster, a sort of continual social and spiritual suicide. These semi-suicides are often, but not always, heavy drinkers. But whereas the neurotic drinker -the classic alcoholic-drinks to avoid reality, to escape feelings of failure, humiliation or inferiority, the disaster-seeking psychopath drinks simply to get himself...
Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...