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Word: characterlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black, as the ultimate in unliberated femininity (what was she before JJ came along?), takes him into her apartment (and her heart), calling out from the kitchen, "I can tell you're nice," as he carefully helps himself to loose objects decorating her living room. Mindless she may be, characterless she is not. I can't remember any of her lines, but in spite of a banal script she makes a delightful happy-go-lucky sucker to Segal's dangerous charm...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Put It Together, Ivan | 2/12/1972 | See Source »

...officialdom in the host governments is essential to any appraisal of that agency's goals and effectiveness. This information is not available in any of the published research carried on by the DAS in Cambridge, nor is it provided by the so-called "substantive documents," which are dry, characterless statements of economic theory or of single policy recommendations rudely dislodged from the decision-making context in which they evolved...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: DAS: Confidential Memoranda | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

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