Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of a touching performance by Actress de Banzie and a smashing one by Actor Olivier. Olivier's Archie is a masterpiece of mannerism. He carries his body like a hyena's, hunched at the neck with the legs dragging carelessly behind. His smile is big, showy, meaningless. His hands are furtive, fiddling, scratching. His eyes are busy, empty, dead. It can, of course, be objected that Olivier's Archie is more a mannerism than a man, that Olivier does everything Archie would do in real life-except live. But then Archie himself did everything except live...
...past, the peace movement has tried to arouse what is called "concern" or "involvement." But at Harvard it has failed. Tocsin wisely has chosen to play down group identification and to stress "personal commitment to act." Action does not mean running around with meaningless petitions or waving a sign demanding peace in our time. It means a host of more demanding tasks. Among them is research--and what is a more exciting topic than steps toward disarmament...
...Protestant monks! To wipe out completely the small step forward taken by the Reformation, the only thing left to do will be to give them strings beads and have them mutter meaningless prayers...
...businessman has begun to wonder whether gadgets may get the upper hand. Said one Westinghouse vice president: "Frivolous features on appliances that were nothing more than second-martini ideas have claimed unnecessarily hundreds of thou sands of dollars in research money." If the money wasted by industry on meaningless model changes were plowed into basic research, the genuinely new products would blossom that much faster...
Praises "B" for your article, "The Era of Non-B"! How could you omit the terrible traffic of textbooks in the field of education, the area of lingo-jargon, grammatical error, meaningless repetition of four words (fundamental, needs, experiences, objectives), padded with graphs, charts, tables and diagrams that imply the reader may not comprehend the value of the paragraph, and therefore might catch...