Word: aimlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer he has never seen before, for no reason except to be in the spirit...
...deep grass while a pack of chic horsewomen come galloping through the glen. Director Edouard Molinaro thus establishes a theme to justify his title. Then, with stylish clowning, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy take out after a galaxy of predatory French dolls in wild, whimsical, aimless and occasionally rather funny fashion...
...Committee is not yet satisfied with sophomore tutorial and will surely modify it next year. But, where some students several years ago condemned the course as "utterly confusing and aimless," today's sophomores appear content. And Michael Mazer, a junior year tutor in the Program, found his incoming students last September "fantastically sophisticated and well-prepared in all aspects of social theory and method...
...Terrace. The ten sullen teenagers are overprivileged, amoral and aimless, and their upper-crust parents are too obtuse or indifferent to notice...
Impaled and Trodden. It took him nearly 30 years, says O'Faolain, to free himself by "slow, tentative, instinctive" steps from the "soft smother of the provincial featherbed." The first step took him to the university, where he learned "the hot and vivid [Irish] pleasures of aimless disputation, of purely contentious shindyism." A second, more important, step took him in 1920 into the Irish Republican Army. His experiences in the I.R.A., first fighting the British and later the troops of the Irish Free State during the civil war, left him with a "savage disillusion with Ireland's ineptitude...