Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks had put togather well-balanced footage of the event, most notably film showing fires and looting in Washington and New York City. It was much like the 1967 summer :Negroes shouldering into shops, helping themselves as if it were a free day at Macy's. Mindless, smiling, they carried their booty through the streets- here a woman struggling with a huge arm chair, there a man with several suits over his arm, there another man lugging not one but two television sets the better, no doubt, to watch the later looting in the comfort of his own living...
Somewhere in a procession of singularly mindless Oscars, the Academy saw fit to honor a great lady of stage and screen, Katharine Hepburn. Miss Hepburn, who had won her last award more than 30 years ago, was named best actress for her appearance in another tale of love between the races, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
...makers blame their audiences' tastes rather than their own for what gets on the air, Dozier produced not only Batman but also two other series that contributed to TV's debasement during that period-Green Hornet and The Tammy Grimes Show. Tammy, an implausible sitchcom about a mindless heiress, lasted only four weeks and was, as Dozier himself admitted to his class, "the most conspicuous failure ever on television." Now that he is back in movies, Dozier feels free to lecture his longtime TV colleagues. "There hasn't been a meaningful show since The Defenders," he says...
...peaceful) demonstration Friday is that it would clearly test the University's tolerance of violent dissent. Veterans of the October sit-in should avoid the fallacy that they have to prove their sincerity by playing confrontation politics with the Administration. They would be indulging in the same mindless, reflex escalation they rightly deplore in this country's Vietnam policy...
...issues of the superintendency battle are depressingly simple. The four Independents, who jealously insist that outsiders like the local educators be excluded from any part in their selection process, are indulging in the same mindless parochialism that won Louise Day Hicks her numerous following. Fitzgerald's motion should be defeated, but barring that, the Independent majority should at least have the honesty not to limit the committee's search to faithful local cronies...