Word: aimlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight was to check the performance of the capsule's oxygen, electrical-and attitude-control systems. Considered critical was the amount of fuel needed. Schirra proved, as the technicians had suspected, that both Glenn and Carpenter could have managed with much less fuel if they had done less aimless maneuvering...
...more troubling question is this: What did Nabokov have in mind when he wrote the book? Everything in it-and particularly the wiry elegance of the poem itself -denies the possibility that it is merely aimless entertainment. And although parts of the book are wickedly satirical of pompous emigres and academic wooden-heads, there seems to be no main target for the satire...
...Hara has a way of turningout long, disorganized and absolutely pointless short stories. Words come so easily to him that he just writes and writes with little thought to the direction he is taking. Presumably, these aimless rambles are supposed to be catching the spirit of an era, or painting an unforgettably quaint character; but all too often they just wander...
When a child of one scribbles, aimless lines and swirls are the only result. Then, in the child's second year, a curious drawing appears: a circle marked by four dots or lines...
Finally a grave green dust settled over your big and aimless hills...