Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community--which does not include the flower child hippie, "who is still tied to property relationships"--never got over 200 in Boston this summer. Near the end, after several weeks of pounding from the police, it was down to fewer than 20. With so few troops, weapons are meaningless, unless the hips take to the hills and employ insurrectionist tactics...
...through to reporters or Lords, anyway: "They'd ask joke questions so you'd give joke answers." As John Lennon said. If you can't talk to someone, if your worlds are so far apart that dialogue is meaningless, but some social situation forces you to talk to them why you...put them...
Their argument is that such things are a violation of the Soviet constitution. Their tactic is essentially an appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...Columbia requested that Manhattan courts drop criminal-trespass charges against almost 400 students arrested in the spring disorders. The university also lifted the suspensions of 42 other students-but not those of Rudd and 30 militants arrested for resisting arrest and inciting to riot. It also rescinded an almost meaningless rule forbidding indoor demonstrations. The thaw was designed to placate campus moderates while isolating the more intransigent radicals...
Thanks to this sort of showmanship, The Who's recent 30-city U.S. tour was-well, a smashing success. But the display, as Peter Townshend admits, "is an act, and it really is meaningless." It is also troublesome, since it requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones...