Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam up merely by decreeing that disclosure of data is not "in the public interest...
...pitted more than 270 artists from 37 nations in an ofttimes murky, sometimes catty battle for supremacy. Over the years, jurors have been called corrupt, the vernissage* week of hanging and judging has been sneered away as a mere carnival, and the prizes have been dismissed as being as meaningless as leather medals...
...Ellsworth Kelly-and included, perhaps for poignancy, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoons. He wound up his brief introduction to the U.S. catalogue with the crashing conclusion that "their experiments are successful. They paint beautiful pictures." When all Americans lost, Geldzahler petulantly handed out a statement denouncing prizes as meaningless...
Birge feels that the same qualities that have embellished the reputation of the Porcellian Club have greatly diminished its ability to be of service to its members. The restrictions placed on discussions within the club make conversation meaningless, he said. "If you start to talk about issues, somebody says, 'Go home and do that; the Club is for friendship.' For Porcellian members, Comradeship and intellectual relationships must be two different things...
...many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church, "is that we priests should only preach the Gospel and stay closed in our sacristies. This is simply a meaningless slogan that is picked up and repeated by enemies of the church when they fear the voice of truth and the voice...