Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburban Washington savored the immense satisfaction of going back to work-at the higher wages they had demanded-for the private contractor to whom the commission had let the new refuse-collection contract. Amid such contradictions, organized public workers are increasingly taking the position that collective bargaining is meaningless without the ultimate weapon of the strike which, used or not, brings gains to private employees...
...PEOPLE seriously interested in activist politics at Harvard quickly see that Young Democrats is simply not for them," Executive Committee member Steven Kelman '70 said recently. "Instead of presenting a consistent democratic ideology, the club is a circus of speakers and politically meaningless administrative meetings which frequently explode into personal quarrels," Kelman said...
...revisit his ex-wife and child in the North Country, where he was born. With him is a migratory bird (Liza Minnelli) who has journeyed from America to be his secretary. Their trip rapidly becomes a descent into the hell of present-day materialistic England. Superhighways stretch on into meaningless dark. High-rise buildings hover like demons over the landscape. Friends talk past him, never...
...first major recommendation has been rejected and if the issues raised by the Dow demonstration are muddled by a new demonstration next week, SFAC's first five meetings will seem dreadfully futile. And there is the further fear that Pusey's decision makes recommendations of the student-dominated Council meaningless unless they are approved by the Faculty...
Predictions from Trivia. Spaniards have turned Franco's long refusal to name his successor into a national guessing game. Its object is to predict-by attributing great significance to acts of meaningless trivia-when, if ever, Franco will restore the monarchy, and to whom, if anyone, he will give the crown. Franco plays the game, too, by scattering contradictory clues, and last week he was playing it with obvious relish. He allowed Spain's monarchists to organize a mass rally to greet Queen Victoria Eugenia at the airport, but restricted TV coverage to a 17-second film strip...