Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dawson '64. Three of Dawson's poems appear in the magazine; they must have been retrieved from his waste basket by some copy hungry Lion Rampant editor. The poet seems to lack any rudimentary "feel" for the music of poetry, and much of his imagery is contrived and almost meaningless. For example...
...great radio dishes, at Johannesburg, South Africa, Woomera, Australia, and Goldstone, Calif., picked up Mariner's reports. They were received as a quavering, singsong radio signal, then translated by a computer into an endless series of letters printed on a broad band of paper. Out of the apparently meaningless melange of characters, Mariner men in JPL's control room deciphered their spacecraft's chatter...
...bank carry the same inscription: "Barclays Bank D.C.O." Wags insist that the initials stand for "debtors, creditors and overdrafts." but in fact they stand for nothing. In 1954. as the British empire retrenched, Barclays prudently struck out "Dominion, Colonial and Overseas" from its longtime overseas title and left the meaningless initials. Today it is involved in a profitable partnership with onetime colonials that has raised its assets to $2.5 billion, a significant portion of the $9 billion assets of its parent, Barclays Bank Ltd. of London...
...Wall Street Journal returned to the firing line: "Perhaps the real meaning of the President's budget is that its enormous figures are all but meaningless. The figures might as well be picked out of the air, and in large measure they have been." Even the Washington Post flip-flopped into hostility: "While budgetary deficits are regarded with increasing tolerance, increases in Government expenditures are viewed with unabated abhorrence." In Philadelphia, the Inquirer felt deep concern: "This country is venturing onto very shaky ground." In Detroit, the Free Press said starkly: "This budget is a horror. It opens...
...absurd and senseless to use the games as cold war battle fronts. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Olympics to prove the supremecy of his Nazi state and earned the laughter of the world when German athletes produced only average performances. Now the U.S., which invented the insidious, meaningless, and unofficial team point system, is following in Hitler's path. Our embarrassment may be as painful as Hitler's, as there is little chance of a U.S. "team" victory...