Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once thought that most protests, though perhaps organized by informed individuals, were for the most part carried out by mindless turkeys who just got their kicks by parading around with a sign in their hand. But I could tell that even the people who watched from a distance supported what we tried to express: they just could not yet bring themselves to demonstrate...
Some residents fear that the plant will lure black workers from Pittsburgh to their largely white community and create racial tension. Reagan dismisses that objection as mindless. "We have a few colored families in town and plenty of apartments going up to take care of the others," says he. "They have as much right to work here as anyone else...
...hours while I chew on unexploded popcorn kernels and await the closing credits. One vacation I spent four nights in a row watching Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers, doubles features. Looking back on it now, I can't see how I survived, because the titles came and went, but those mindless plots stayed the same. It got so by the third night I could predict exactly when the big dance number would come. I would claim the gift of prophecy, but I might just have been watching reruns...
...holds up academic individualism and exploration as an ideal, but instead it fosters apathy. Professors are unhappy about students who want to minimize their work and maximize their grades. We have more choices to make than students in the past, and too many of us deal with them through mindless pre-professionalism and confused leave-taking. Meaningful choices grow out of people; they need to be nurtured, and not directed. The Core Curriculum proposal is an attempt to direct...
More chilling than the vision of a pushbutton life was your litany of the "benign" influence of new-generation computers. Mindless worship of faster-and-easier is the product of programmed thinking. The computers are proud...