Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meaningless & Poignant. Inevitably, De Gaulle's political enemies sought to use the disorders as an excuse to bring down the government of his hand-picked Premier, Georges Pompidou, 56, who more and more was acting and speaking like a dauphin in the crisis. Both the Communists, France's second largest party after De Gaulle's own U.N.R., and the Federation of the Left, led by Francois Mitterrand, tabled a joint censure motion in the National Assembly...
...resolution doesn't specify who decides how much breadth is possible and it could therefore become meaningless. Dean Glimp indicated last week that he would favor some restrictions to prevent the Office of Graduate and Career Plans from becoming "a clearing house for debates with gurus...
...shoddy workmanship-one can almost see him in an English county seat decrying the servant problem and denouncing Labour amid outraged pipe smoke. He accurately describes himself as neo-Victorian in regard to sex; he speaks ill of homosexuality and masturbation, and proclaims that "without guilt, sex was meaningless." In fact, one sometimes wonders whether Mailer is not really an undercover agent of the old order, trying to undermine the Left from within...
...trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. Adultery, says Updike, has become a kind of "imaginative quest" for a successful hedonism that would enable man to enjoy an otherwise meaningless life. But to seek pleasure is not necessarily to find...
...Christ's law was one of love and not legality is made so evident in the Essay that it must take on a new meaning to all Christians. You have presented a picture of Jesus Christ that removes the image of him as a proverbial prophet of a meaningless message and shows him to be the great man of love-a love that extends out not for simply the people of his day but an atemporal, everlasting love. The ultimate success of the Essay lies in the hearts...