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Word: aimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make brilliant use of Harvard College. As a group they are widely misunderstood, and often confused with cases of "academic suicide"--a phrase describing students who have rebelled against the system with no idea of what they wanted, and who, consequently, have simply frittered away their college years in aimless (in)activity...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: In Praise of Academic Abandon | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Though official eulogists proclaimed that "one of his ancestors was a distinguished Spanish army officer, and another was a French marquis," Rafael Leonidas Trujillo actually was one of eleven children of an aimless, part-Negro postal clerk named José Trujillo Valdez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: End of the Dictator | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...pictorial experience, La Dolce Vita is superb; as a drama it is loose and aimless. Transitions from scene to scene succeed magnificently on a visual level, but make little sense in terms of dramatic development. Perhaps there is something appropriate about the mosaic in the Gary lobby which misspells the name of Moliere...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: La Dolce Vita | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

Doubtless, scores of T. S. Eliot devotees, not to mention old T.S. himself, have taken offense at the unenviable status accorded him by your inapplicable excerpt from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. "I grow old . . . I grow old . . ." implies that our hero, like Prufrock, has aged into aimless ineffectivity, a frustrated prisoner of existence. All such inferences are belied by your magazine, which shows Eliot, scantily clad, in unmistakably blissful contentment, visibly impervious to his public, and matrimonially endowed with a woman less than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1961 | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Without you our country would be President-less, Cabinet-less, leaderless, aimless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 20, 1961 | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

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