Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold halls of a German castle, now a resort. Idlers. Fragments of meaningless dialogue. A stranger finds the eyes of a young woman and tells her that one year ago he met her here in this same place. Her husband was off in the casino, as he is now, gambling, paying no attention to her. She agreed, the stranger tells her, to meet him again in a year's time, and to go away with him. She does not remember if she was there last year or not. But she goes with the stranger, and her husband does nothing...
Politics of Despair. Hook sees religion as an interpretation of life that seeks to explain and provide consolation for otherwise meaningless suffering, and as such he is willing to tolerate it. In the case of personal beliefs, justified to the individual in the way that love justifies itself, Hook suspends rational criticism. That is the individual's own business. The crux of Hook's position is the question: Where does man's moral sense come from? Hook's rigidly pragmatic answer: practical experience leads to a set of rules that men later attribute to a divine...
...restore reality to the meaningless fiction of overstated income and understated outgo that passed for a national budget under ex-President Juscelino Ku-bitschek, Quadros issued his own flinty figures for next year. Adding up the funds needed to support the immense bureaucracy and public works program inherited from Kubitschek, Quadros predicted a deficit of $513 million-so great, said Quadros, that "a potential deficit of this size has never before been confessed by a chief of state...
...Faculty has adopted a policy of not announcing class standings for other than the first 100 students in a class. Although they will still know the applicants' grades, the big-city firms will no longer be able to rely exclusively on these magic numbers which have become rather meaningless because of the great degree of bunching in the middle of the class...
...decides to believe in that. Then rockets erupt from Earth. At first George is happy; he will have friends, and be the greatest moon expert in the universe. But inevitably, doubts sneak up. Earthmen will patronize him, and give him their bags to carry. Whipping himself into a meaningless fury, he decides to fight: "I don't care how many rocks they have. I know the terrain...