Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essentially Meaningless...
They now feel, however, that they made a mistake in including both issues on one petition. This makes "the number who have signed essentially meaningless," one of them said...
...South Korea, Thailand and South Viet Nam. No sooner was the meeting announced than it came under a withering crossfire of criticism. Moscow Radio dismissed it as "a propaganda stunt," the G.O.P. as a political gimmick. In one of his less becoming sneers, Senator William Fulbright dubbed it a meaningless palaver among "a cozy little group of our boys...
...ignoirance about crime imposes on attempts at reform? Like the rest of nature, the human brain abhors a vacuum. If we do not help people move toward an understanding of how complex the issues and the facts in this field are, they will continue to think in terms of meaningless and often destructive oversimplifications. It will be difficult to get support for the process of change if discussion of issues is confined to whether to be for or against the Supreme Court, whether to be tough or soft on criminals, whether to support or leash the police. The issues...
...reasons why the amendment is a bad one have been covered many times. It is dangerous because it is a positive step toward state support of religion as well as a direct attack on the First Amendment. It is meaningless, because school children will be coerced into "voluntary" participation because they do not want to be different from the majority of their classmates. Many national leaders, including President Kennedy, have insisted that the church and the home are the places where religion should be taught, not the school...