Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. In both houses it would be easy to spot such specimens as the mournful mastiff, the excitable spitz, the busy dachshund with his close-set lawyer's eyes, the bloodhound with his air of sad preoccupation. Furthermore, there is an engaging and familiar quality about the aimless circling, the friendly tail-wagging, the snoozing and occasional fang-baring which take place on the floor...
...first group gets what it wants, in a strong and tasty dose. For the others, Geology is never very oppressive and often a lot of fun, but three years of scratching rocks and drawing colored lines seems rather aimless after graduation...
...slow first act and two seemingly aimless ones following it expelled two people sitting behind me. These people missed a treat in the last two acts of Ibsen's great play. It is then that the characters, ideas, and comedy of "The Wild Duck" bloom, in some of the most masterful writing of modern theater. The acting parallels the movement of the play, reaching a brilliant climax in the last two acts...
Sleep Till Noon should maintain his high sales, as well as his distance from Swift and Rabelais. Advertised as "a roaring burlesque of middle-class morality," it is actually an aimless gaggle of giggles about a bus boy who married money. At the end, with a penetration more like Jack Homer's than Dean Swift's, Max sticks in his thumb and pulls out a withered old prune for his readers' delectation. Money, he warns archly, corrupts...
...crisis comes when the woman reaches 40 or 50 and her children are grown. She then resorts to "bridge, chatter, shopping expeditions, aimless clubs and, in extreme cases, to alcohol to gain an illusory sense of activity...