Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrouded planet during its flyby. Whatever its findings, however, Mariner will hardly be able to top the recent accomplishment of astronomers in a plane flying only 37,000 feet above the earth. Using an ingenious scheme and sophisticated equipment, they determined conclusively that Venus is a bone-dry planet devoid of water-and probably devoid of any kind of life...
...that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
...Devoid of sexual passion, a corporate creature whose work is his life, "he" becomes the Oriental equivalent of the passive Antonioni villain. In the end, "she" and "he" lie side by side in bed, untouching, distant relatives by marriage; their bleak lives infinitely poorer than those of their impoverished neighbors...
When the Federation of Teaching Fellows and the University Administration meet in a few days to talk about wages, the confrontation will no doubt be devoid of drama. Both the Deans and the teaching fellows have every reason to minimize conflict. The University habitually greets insurgencies with a degree of sympathy, and the Federation is green and remarkably nonmilitant...
...Rothko, and Newman--to mention only a few--impart their dominant mood at first glance and further investigation only elaborates and refines the sensation. "Optical" art, although it also changes continually and has a sustaining visual fascination, fails to elicit the excitement of the Louis paintings because it is devoid of any mood or emotion...