Word: directionless
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...dances, familiar Broadway exercises in directionless motion, stem from the King of France school of choreography-"the King of France with 40,000 men went up the hill, and came right back again." Most of the score seems to have been written in invisible notes and dissolving lyrics, although two numbers, I'll Never Be Lonely Again and If I Ruled the World, have a plaintive and perhaps durable charm...
...Jacob-Joseph complexes may become aggravated, most typically in the freshmen or senior year, into the more severe Jonah complex. Here the undergraduate feels himself engulfed in helplessness. He sleeps through breakfast, but goes to dinner early so he may watch T.V. afterwards in his house common room. Directionless, he rarely studies, but thinks about studying perpetually. If he is a senior, he lacks a thesis topic. Jonah arrived in his predicament through running away. So does his namesake. The whale of Harvard swallows him. (In its most critical form, the Jonah complex is transmuted into the Amos complex...
...painting. It is: "A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object...
...hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored No. 1 periscope to use. Constant fear: that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either of the two water exits-like a sort of latter-day Flying Dutchman. This fear was banished on the historic '58 voyage by the installation of a complex inertial navigator...
Unless we judge a magazine on make-up or typicality, Summer's dish of pot-pourri fails to justify its seventy-five cents. Audience is heavy and directionless. And dull...