Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comments concerning its final recommendations are premature. Also, because faculty-student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful function and prevents a meaningful exchange of ideas. We fear that such attacks may easily degenerate into meaningless polemics and counter-productive confrontations. Therefore, we find such conduct unacceptable in the pursuit of objective truth. In closing, we wish to express our support of the investigative efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee and urge that, in the future, such pointless attacks as this be avoided by all parties...
...huge, unwieldy government, when translating policy into reality is one of the most difficult problems of all, Nixon's mechanical approach may be more promising. Yet efficiency is a means, not an end, and can become meaningless in the absence of a creative policy-and worthy policymakers. Despite his image as a hardheaded selector of talented men, Nixon chose the mediocre Spiro Agnew as running mate to avoid antagonizing Southern Republicans, while Humphrey picked the better-qualified Edmund Muskie. "Agnew is not a racist," said Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, last week. Then, in an extraordinary burst of candor...
...part, the problem is one of technology. City lines are meaningless when a commuter, on his everyday ride to work, passes through a dozen corporate boundaries from home to office. Neither are there limits to the problems technology has created; traffic jams and noise, air and water pollution do not stop at the city line. In part, the problem is one of insensitive institutions. A city welfare department may have been well equipped to han dle the demands of a quarter-century ago, but almost all are handicapped by today's huge caseloads...
Kraft's reaction to the press's anger in Chicago is shame. As a journalist schooled in the myth of objectivity, he seems to feel guilty after showing his feelings. And justifies his action by turning to still another meaningless journalistic cliche--that the reporter is the "agent of the sovereign public...
...generation, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, as much as its social manifestations, long hair and flagrant dress for example, are bound in an inextricable whole out of which emerge also our political beliefs. It is not only futile to cut your hair to further your political interests--it is meaningless and absurd, a betrayal...