Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That produces losses to Vermont and unhappy bus rides back from Providence, but I don't think beating Brown is worth mindless fanaticism and recruiting trips into the Canadian woods. If it takes Cornell's hockey program to win a national championship, then the championship isn't worth winning...
...Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...
...Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...
...decades later, with a change in architectural belief. Obsessed with the idea that everything in G and S has to be funny, they have transformed a soprano showpiece into a mindless burlesque. Barbara Menaker, as Mabel, goes along with the gag, and gives an adequate but useless performance...
...rise of student and intellectual radicalism as a major phenomenon of the second half of the '60's." Prevailing orthodoxy, to be sure, dutifully assures us that "an affluent, consumer-oriented capitalist society has bred contented cows," that one dimensional technological society has reduced all its citizens to mindless automata. But even while Professor Lipset was solemnly proclaiming the end of an ideological era in which "fundamental political problems of the industrial revolution have been solved.... This very triumph of the democratic social revolution in the West ends domestic politics for those intellectuals who must have ideologies or utopias...