Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Woes & Wiles. Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer. During his junior year at Princeton, he is overwhelmed by the mindless undergraduate decorum of the place and flees to New York, a room at the Y, and five years of psychoanalysis. Nights, he works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen...
...athlete does not have to be mindless to be great, but he does not have to commit himself, and that's what is especially hard for a Harvard senior. Baaron B. Pittinger, director of sports information, estimates that he has seen 10 or 12 fully dedicated athletes in his seven years here...
...soon as you start to talk about Vietnam, you begin to have doubts about your government." Michael S. Ansara, an executive of the national chapter of SDS at Harvard, however, attributed the growth of SDS to the new image of the Left at Harvard. "The view of the mindless radical has gone out. We think before we act," he says...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...
...fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...