Word: meaninglessness
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...Olympics are a meaningless competition in which the amateurs of some countries compete against the professionals of other nations...
...social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas: "Christians should probably be outraged at prayers directed 'to whom it may concern...
...many non-Yuppie Democrats, Hart appeals simply by keeping open the prospect of a genuine choice in contests that before New Hampshire had seemed likely to be meaningless because they would occur long after Mondale had locked up the nomination. California, for instance, will choose more delegates than any other state (345), but its Democrats had assumed there would be no race left by the time they voted in the June 5 primary. Hart's New Hampshire victory changes that. Exults Executive Director of the State Democratic Party Michael Gordon, who is neutral: "Now California has been thrust into prominence...
...letter attempts to discredit Harvard Faculty through invective and innuendo ("...force students to regurgitate knee-jerk radicalism"), and meaningless Double-speak ("Harvard...must also be made a home of open discussion instead of an oasis of utopian radicalism) without providing substantive evidence in support of the allegations...
...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...