Word: meaninglessness
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...definitely wasn't. When the small, brutal battles, "police flailing their pricks," ended, Ignatius wrote, "we are lost, we are angry, it is nothing; we make it out of the park; it is over. It is meaningless and worse, it is every bit as unreal as going to a class or writing about something or doing just about anything except fucking." He thinks of the Scots attacking Rommel in North Africa in a nighttime raid, using bagpipes to freeze the Germans with stark fear, and wonders, "Maybe we needed kazoos, ten thousand blood-curdling kazooers marching down Tremont...
...what sort of a victory was it? Only the most deluded protestors could believe that temporarily holding onto a meaningless piece of of concrete was in any sense a victory over nuclear power. In its official literature, CDAS was saying that it would physically take over the plant and stop construction, but most of us making the trek to Seabrook that weekend recognized this as fantasy. True, there had been successful occupations in Germany and France, but those built on massive community support, and CDAS could only mobilize 1500 people, mostly "outside agitators," significantly fewer than in the October...
...decisionmaking structure had totally broken down, the arrested people turned out not to be on the bus, and meanwhile the road was not clear, filled by the scurrying TV cameramen and radio journalists covering the event. It was all a game, a deadly serious game, for authority over a meaningless road. We were not confronting the utilities, the State, capitalism, only some hired cops who didn't really want to be there in the first place. In the end, the police with protestors gleefully following with shouts of "Hup, Hup, Hup" and "OK, march 'em to the plant and leave...
...hopes of school-integration supporters that the Justices might be receptive to cross-district busing plans now before various federal courts. The advocates argue such broader plans are necessary because the white flight to the suburbs has left central-city school districts so heavy with minorities that integration becomes meaningless...
...final, meaningless doubles matches, Grossman and Beren lost to Meister and John Low, 6-4, 6-4, while Kirsch and Terner fell to Adam Cioth and Zimmerman by a hopelessly drawn out 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 score...