Word: aimless
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...Workers are no more aimless in Harvard work than in Boston, except as undergraduates are less responsible. But they are all too aimless. It is a strange affliction of the volunteer. They all suffer from it to a greater or less degree, and are not wholly to blame. I blame the supervisors...
...perfecting of industrial processes will soon produce a five-hour working day, and Mr. Alger fears that the great surplus of time will be used for aimless amusement instead of self-improvement. The greatest danger to the growth of culture is of course the multiplication of devices for amusement or distraction--the radio, automobiles, professional baseball, and a host of others, all "spectator" amusements. Mr. Alger declares that people have no conception of the obligations as well as the pleasures of leisure, and insist on being amused instead of improved, with the same degenerating effects as those found in slave...
...Some ten months ago, this entertainment was unveiled in Greenwich Village under the title of The Leap. Recast and rewritten, it is now uptown. The opening audience could not determine why. On the whole, it seemed one of the most aimless and inept productions of the year. The plot tells of a man who involved himself with a daughter when he thought he was addressing her mother...
When it comes to the greatest thrill of his life this long Texan adventurer turns to a Columbia class rush in which his son was taking part! After this one is not surprised when he concludes by saying that if his boy became an "aimless wanderer over and under the world" he would "nail his shoes to the floor". Like others who have sailed toward the horizon for romance and adventure he has ended by finding them in his own land, and even worse--in New York...
padded with a pair of proven actresses (Gail Kane and Elisabeth Risdon), though written by a graduate of Harvard's famed 47 Workshop (Thomas Robinson), one week sufficed to knock this play quite out of competition. It was an aimless story of a writer, his wife, another woman...