Word: directionless
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...stereotype is her whole life. Ordinarily, resigned self-abnegation directs all her energies towards her family: she even brings home to her husband the lone slice of meat she receives for lunch at the factory. But when the strain of exhaustion and isolation becomes too powerful. Clara explodes into directionless rage and paroxysms of tears, set off by such poignant frustrations as her family's failure to set her alarm clock, making her late for work. No trace of individuality graces this stark portrait of women's oppression, so that while the helplessness and despair of Clara's position emerge...
...media are selling, you get shoddy, short-lived goods, that the task of the times may be to close one's mind to the flow of easy symbols and pre-packaged interpretations." Maynard is being peddled by the media as our sage, and her introspection, though appealing, is directionless, as she readily admits. Now that Maynard has accumulated a following of the wornout, there doesn't seem to be anyplace to lead it. Her next book will be about doll houses, which along with TV was her childhood passion. I guess I'm a little too old for that...
...side issue, both for Chekhov and in the film. With or without Russian historical background, we are drawn in by the lives of these people: the self-centered professor, who has been writing about art for 25 years "without knowing anything about art:" Yelena, his completely provocative and utterly directionless young wife: Sonya, his fresh, intelligent young daughter, stuck in the country for the rest of her days; Vanya himself, who could have been "a Dostoevsky or a Schopenhauer" if not for 25 years of "stupid, dirty provincial life;" and Dr. Astrov, who despite his intelligence and energy will sink...
...opposed to the more profound and fundamental issue of the war policy itself--was the center of public attention in the aftermath of Cambodia. And much of the nationwide outrage that followed the invasion was inspired by an aspect of the war that was only tactical. The diffuse and directionless protest in response to the invasion was easily co-opted by a peripheral concession. Nixon learned his lesson: do not make ground troops the crux of American involvement in the war. The failure of Saigon's invasion of Laos the following February, an invasion which took place without U.S. assistance...
...programmed liabilities of its own. Disobedience--defiance without direction--had put George Jackson into the prison system. There, further disobedience could only result in a further escalation in his state of captivity, for the prison system with its rules and punishment options is well-armed to deal with the directionless rebel. By compulsively disobeying, one is playing the system's game. The game the system was designed...