Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently unaware of the President's plans and intentions themselves, the members of the Administration have been reduced to making meaningless and sometimes embarrassing noises in public. Last week Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor predicted an expanding economy, but the only cliché he dared use to buttress his faith was that the Government would continue "a sound mix of fiscal and monetary policies." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, attacking reports of a "credibility gap" in the Administration, questioned the credibility of the press in reporting budgetary news-of which there has been precious little...
Everybody, particularly the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, realize that Goldberg's words are more significant for what they omit than for what they concede. And again, the U.S. has attempted to hide its intransigence over the bombing with meaningless words of encouragement for a cease-fire. The peace efforts, in turn, are inevitably doomed to failure as long as the bombing -- ineffectual and inflammatory at the same time -- continues...
Unfortunately, Harvard and other universities did less than they might have to keep this meaningless requirement from being foisted on them. They first accepted effort reporting in 1963, when the National Institutes of Health adopted it as a requirement. The universities themselves offered it as a compromise in 1964, when they feared that the Bureau of the Budget was going to recommend, in effect, that professors fill out time cards. And they stood by in 1965 while a provision that would inevitably force more effort reporting was tacked onto educational appropriations in Congress. As a result, by last spring...
...conflict between evangelism and social action is "mistaken." Evangelical churchmen, such as Graham and Christianity Today Editor Carl Henry, now increasingly stress that spiritual conversion inevitably finds expression in action for the social good. Similarly, National Council leaders have become more aware that activism without spiritual underpinnings is religiously meaningless...
Richard E. Caves, chairman of the Economics Department, said yesterday that the change would simply "delete an essentially meaningless grade from the record...