Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a passing grade to a University of California professor's report on genetically determined differences in intelligence. TELEVISION questions the networks' handling of their lively new "magazine" shows. BUSINESS examines the reasons for black frustrations in Detroit auto plants and deplores the violent response of mindless black militants. WORLD discusses the Soviet Union's foreign-policy problems and finds that the Russians have very little room for maneuver. PRESS turns the writer-critic relationship completely around with a critical appraisal of Clive Barnes, dance and drama critic of the New York Times...
...corruption weaken and ultimately destroy an invaluable part of American art. Burt Kennedy, who worked with Boetticher, a great moralist, should think twice before he makes another low-key spoof; and Tom Gries should be congratulated for punching some emotion and feeling into what could have been a completely mindless action picture...
...street before their home became a barbed-wire no-man's-land. As a toddler, Sirhan had witnessed a terrorist bombing, and one of his brothers was killed by a car speeding to outrun hostile gunfire. From modest comfort, the family was reduced to the mindless misery of refugees. It was, Sirhan insisted, a tragedy that had transformed him into a rootless being, even after he reached the U.S. in 1957. "I always felt that I had no country," he declared to the court last week when he took the witness stand in his own defense. "I wanted...
...neon light, as they coldly ask each "big spender" to come on to the dance floor for "fun, laughs, and a good time." The song, full of cynical Dorothy Fields lyric, brings home in nightmarish tones that world where money turns sex into the sweaty throbbing of the mindless body...
...they may be disillusioned with McCarthy's recent behavior; the fact is that their efforts played a considerable part in persuading Lyndon Johnson to withdraw from the election and seek peace in Viet Nam. The episode showed, among other things, that the most effective protest is not mindless violence and the shock tactics of obscenity, but disciplined, organized effort...