Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightly led to believe, the same skills will establish their success in college. Increasing pressure for admission will force all students to focus on these skills, and make it increasingly difficult for the admission office to distinguish other qualifications. Thus, the danger is not merely that the tests become meaningless, but also that the applicants adopt the camouflage of acting like potential scholars. Growing uniformity of post-college plans pre-determines an increasing homogeneity in those who apply. And there is not a thing the College can do about it--so says the group which recognizes the problem. For those...
...Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances of drug-taking...They want to carry nothing forward...
London's intent in bringing Bloomfield before the court was to prove that there are "meaningless and irrational" social conventional about use of some words...
...There may be some feeling on the Faculty that the affidavit issue has become meaningless, in the face of more pressing economic demands...
...loves her; that for the first time in life or death he is in love. In dignity and silence he descends again into hell, he returns to a torment infinitely more terrible because now, with a heart awakened by love, he can truly feel the meaningless enormity of his eternal lust...