Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the feeling persists that the U.S. might have done more to protect Prague. Before the invasion, the Administration had made clear to the So viets that the use of force might seriously jeopardize Soviet-American relations. Missile rattling would have been meaningless because there was no willingness to back it up. The Soviets knew that; Washington knew that they knew it. Almost any overt U.S. involvement could well have given the Russians a further excuse to crack down on Prague...
...April the murder of Martin Luther King ignited Negro riots in 125 cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nicol William son is John Osborne's 39-year-old London solicitor to the life, possessed by the terrifying realization that he is mediocrity itself and that what lies ahead for him is meaningless...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In this transposition of John Osborne's bitterly impassioned play, Nicol Williamson sears the screen as a London solicitor who awakes one morning to the frightening realization that he has grown middle-aged and that his life is meaningless...
...record reveals that the second last time the chorus says 'Dum Dum Dum Dolay' someone says in a nasal voice over the Dum Dums 'Please don't come too late.' What the Who were trying to do was to approximate a specific meaning-phrase by a seemingly meaningless sound. If all had gone well the hypnotic chants of Dum Dum Dolay should have created the feeling of expectation that the following line 'I'm gonna show you why they call me lightning' depends on. In this case it probably didn't work...