Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment, "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor," I conclude that Mayor Sam 1) has never read beyond the second paragraph of the city charter, or 2) is out of his mind. Considering his meaningless bickering with the City Council; his uncalled for, pseudo expert opinions on Viet Nam; and his strange proclivity for the word "plot," I incline toward the second possibility...
...Madison Avenue. The moderates show equal-if more restrained-disdain for the radicals, believe that the slogan "Black power!" is meaningless in substance and pernicious in impact. If Stokely Carmichael, 25, who first popularized the cry, were not heading S.N.C.C., said N.A.A.C.P. Chief Roy Wilkins on TV's Meet the Press, he "ought to be on Madison Avenue. He is a public relations man par excellence, and he abounds in the provocative phrase." Rather than submit to the philosophy of black power, many moderates, both white and Negro, have left-or been forced from-CORE and S.N.C.C...
...charges that one prisoner had a severe reaction to DMSO, but that this was not acknowledged in the Kligman report, that Dr. Kligman al lowed his comparison subjects to take other investigational drugs, instead of a dummy (placebo), thus rendering his conclusions meaningless, and that he reported blood tests on patients who were not even in the hospital at the time he claimed. Dr. Kligman has the right to ask the FDA to review its action...
...Your article on the Venice Biennale [June 24] stated: "When all Americans lost, Geldzahler petulantly handed out a statement denouncing prizes as meaningless." TIME got the sequence and tone of the events wrong. I announced that "prizes reflect quality only in the most haphazard way" on June 14, the day the judges began their work. I had previously taken this stand in a talk at the Italian Embassy in Washington...
...issue that summed up the major policy question of the campaign: Should a peace candidacy be waged in traditional political terms--babies, handshaking, and splashy but meaningless posters--or as a departure from establishment politics, as a campaign of dissent...