Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy enough for adults to reject the irrationality and hedonism of this ethic. But the young are quick to point out that the most rational and technically accomplished society known to man has led only to racism, repression and a meaningless war in the jungles of Southeast Asia. If that is oversimplification, it is the kind around which ringing slogans are made...
...President did not resort to a ghost writer to express his sentiments on the solemn occasion. He spoke with beautiful simplicity right from his heart, which the astronauts apparently understood perfectly and enjoyed thoroughly. Would they have felt more at ease had the President delivered a dry, solemn, meaningless, lengthy speech that the enlightened intellectuals would have enjoyed interpreting and criticizing...
...which Kennedy is held, the poll indicated no radical shift as a result of Chappaquiddick: 63% said that they held him in the same degree of esteem now as before; 5% said that they had more respect; 28%, less respect. Trial heats now in anticipation of 1972 would be meaningless in ordinary circumstances, but in this case they give an indication of Kennedy's before-and-after standing. In a new three-way match with Richard Nixon and George Wallace, Kennedy received 38%, Nixon 48%, Wallace 8%. A Harris survey in late May gave Kennedy 37%, Nixon...
...divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen feel that theology created by white men views God's action through honkie eyes, making it meaningless for the Negro situation. Says Methodist Bishop Joseph A. Johnson: "We affirm our blackness, recognize that our experience is authentic and create a theology based on our experience...
...Island in the turbulent years after World War II. Its trademark was a photograph of Jackson Pollock, intently swirling skeins of paint from a stick onto a canvas laid flat on a floor. "The most powerful painter in contemporary America," declared Critic Clement Greenberg. "Chaos . . . wallpaper . . . an elaborate if meaningless tangle of cordage and smears," complained the more conventional commentators...