Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Animal. It is a rare father who appreciates a son with a talent better than his own. The Scottish Alexander Boswell, annoyed with Son James's apparently aimless career, writes in 1763 barely two weeks after James's famous meeting with Samuel Johnson: "Be more on guard for the future against mimicry, journals and publications, and endeavor to find out some person of worth who may be a friend." Heinrich Marx, a prosperous lawyer, rebukes his son Karl in 1837 for turning into a drone at the university and sadly agrees with the boy's mother that...
...little communication with one another, less with the surrounding world, and none with God. A woman, her young son, and her unmarried sister travel through a country invented by Bergman, where people speak an incomprehensible rococo-syllabic language, also invented by Bergman. The story line is wavy and apparently aimless. The unmarried woman has a marked erotic interest in her sister. The sister's heterosexuality is fired rather than suppressed by this. It is inflamed further when she goes to a variety show at a local theater and sees a couple in the audience clearly engaged in making love...
MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...
Solo at Sixteen. But Cooper's doubters missed a central point. Aimless as he may sometimes seem on earth, he is a man with a mission-"to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster." Explains a close friend: "All Gordon Cooper is, is a pilot. He's a good one and a smart one, and that's all he wants...
...program to combat the possibility of an aimless, technically helpless generation in America would certainly be worthy of the long, twilight struggle envisioned by the President. The questions raised by the structural changes in the economy are national in character and scope: they deal with the level of education and vocational training to which the nation must aspire, the composition and purpose of the labor movement, and the uses to which the society will direct its leisure. Certainly the tone of American life will change in the next twenty years, and that change need not imply misery, insecurity...