Word: mindlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjoined commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the first stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...
Gorky became rather more a surrealist than anything else. His canvases seethed with strange, diseased, weirdly colored, biomorphic forms that hover in a mindless galaxy halfway between flower and viscera. Agony was completed in 1947 and reflects several personal catastrophes, past, present and to come. The burning down of his Connecticut studio, a cancer operation and a crippling automobile accident ultimately led Gorky to take his own life...
Pusey then spent the rest of his speech arguing that the "commendable" desire to root out social evil should not lead students into mindless attacks on authority and power...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjointed commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the fist stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...
What next? We already hear familiar calls: "Amnesty for the students involved." "The president must go." "The Corporation must go." I trust that Harvard will not be impressed by such shopworn slogans, that Faculty and students alike will decline to play the mindless roles which the impressarios of the action at University Hall have arranged for them. Great as it is, Harvard no doubt is open to improvement, and perhaps it is time to review the representation accorded different interests. But the first order of business on any constructive agenda must be the reassertion of traditional Harvard reasonableness and resistance...