Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their advanced skills, the sci entists of Cygnus made two important errors. In the first place, the signal they received contained no message at all. It came straight from Indonesia, where the volcano Krakatoa had erupted elev en years before, generating meaningless radio waves with its churning plasma...
...year Vera marries Gideon, who never appears; and Jack and Leo go off on a camping trip in the Vermont Hills to forget her. They find themselves unable to forget, however, and spend their time (and the audience's) recalling the courtship in a series of tedious, confusing, and meaningless flashbacks...
...does not mention the Bay of Pigs.) Despite his personal intimacy with many decisions, Sorensen repeatedly speaks in the generic ("the most formidable debater is not necessarily the most informed; the reticent may sometimes be the wisest,") instead of the specific rendering insights so vage as to be meaningless...
...with a student body that is 80 percent Negro. The children learn very little, in academic subjects or conduct; attending classes is a pointless nuisance, and less healthy parts of their environments are left the dominant influences in their lives. "Education as it is received now in Roxbury is meaningless. The child sees no relationship between what he is doing in the school and what he will be doing when he finishes school. The school has been a failure...
Many doctors doubt these extravagant claims, but the sleep-pill business is booming. The number of prescriptions written for barbiturates is meaningless-too many prescriptions are renewed, in defiance of doctors' orders and federal and state laws, and many prescriptions are forged. Americans spend an estimated $60 million a year, legally or not, on prescription-type sleeping pills. Another $17 million goes for over-the-counter items which, by federal law, must contain none of the potent opiates or barbiturates. After the harried insomniac has spent a few hours in drug-induced sleep, he is likely to wake...