Word: fruitlessness
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Stern lets his camera roam, picking up the boats reflected in weird patterns on the rippling water of Newport Harbor, a sedate matron startled by the sudden appearance of an amateur brass combo, or a bartender's fruitless battle with explosive beer bottles. The music is well-integrated throughout, reflecting the tasteful editing of Stern and Aram Avakian. The cumulative effect is excellent...
...that Old Jack has a right to his own privacy, but certainly there are items under the rubric of "private life" that are essential fodder for a well-informed citizen. For instance, we will miss the scores of the Kennedy clan's touch football games. It will be a fruitless life indeed without the President's latest golf score. How can the man presume to tell little Caroline the facts of life and not release the transcript to his constituency...
...this pledge and of the electoral system as it exists today must force them to vote as they said they would vote last month. The effort of Barnett and that notably playful Louisiana legislature to persuade or command the electors to do otherwise constitutes a grave (though hopefully fruitless) threat to democratic government in this country...
Democratic politicians can rarely afford the luxury of telling the truth to the people: witness the current and fruitless debate on Cuba. Both candidates support the indefensible American blockade of that country, and both know more about the situation than they are telling whistlestop crowds...
Khrushchev's declaration of independence for all peoples of the world should meet with our enthusiastic approval as the first step to real disarmament. Therefore, let us hurry and schedule, for October, free elections in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc., and then resume the otherwise fruitless talks...