Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
...Nothing really does happen. The come-ons are put-ons; there is no smoking or drinking onscreen, and the promised love play is usually limited to an innocent kiss behind a surfboard. Frankie Avalon and ex-TV Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, the romantic leads who trip through their scenes with mindless abandon, come across as the Ma and Pa Kettle of the teeny-bopper set. Explains an A.I.P. market researcher: "Kids realize that sex play exists, but they don't like movies to get involved with it. A boy watching a movie and sitting next to a girl with whom...
...trouble is that even in the role of merely negative or gadfly critics, the New Radicals are too mindless. In the words of one New Left manifesto, they want to remain "permanently radical"-which is about as possible as remaining permanently young. Their refusal to make common cause with liberals and other reformers, their dedication to action rather than thought, emotion rather than reason, will almost surely destroy what influence they have. Some are already disillusioned: protest demonstrations are not changing the Viet Nam situation, and the civil rights movement is not only stalled but increasingly hostile to them. Their...
...arms. In her eyes he sees the wreck that horror and hardship have made of him. At that instant, a newsman arrives to take a picture of them. "Everybody smile!" the photographer hollers with a snarling cheeriness that the horrified hero sees as a caricature of his own mindless optimism. "Keep smiling! Keep smiling...
...Passaggio had an immediate and ferocious impact which the stylized manner of the Monteverdi could not even approach. The multilingual text was mostly unintelligible, but apparently Passaggio portrays the "passage" of a single character, called "She," at odds with and seemingly at the mercy of a heartless and mindless society, represented by choruses next to the stage and at the sides of the house. The hostility of the chorus was evident from the moment its opening hisses, murmurs, and shouts began to fill the darkened theatre, while both Her helplessness and humanness came through largely from Miss Mandac's presence...