Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amusing intellectual exercise for Guzmán, but it does not come off very well. In translation, it sounds like bad Hemingway. In content, it ignores the broad historical background necessary to relate Villa's actions to the progress of the revolution, is stuffed with too many meaningless names and unidentified locations. Even so, it is a frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution...
...brought from the academy. I felt myself freed [from the war] and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau...
Most students agree that the grade as it stands is meaningless, but many express concern with the impression, that an ungraded course would make on graduate schools other than Harvard. One junior objected to the change because "it's the one A I can be sure of getting at Harvard...
...entire U.S. effort to isolate the fighting; the demand was swiftly rejected. Caamaño excused himself so often to huddle secretly with his "advisers" that there was increasing doubt about who actually was the rebel leader. Finally, he was asked who his advisers were, and he gave some meaningless names. "I know these people," said one witness, "and I know he wouldn't even ask them what time...
...names, the gestures, are meaningless pressagentry. All you really have to do is shake your hips a little and then, as Sybil Burton puts it, "dance to suit yourself." Dancing to rock 'n' roll has become such a private reverie, in fact, that a partner, except in deference to custom, is not necessary. And that is its great attraction. Since couples neither touch nor even look at each other, all the shyness some men and women have about dancing?clammy hands, missing a beat, stepping on feet, etc.?is removed and, as one club owner says, "Everybody goes...