Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem was that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...
...energies to giving the film as glossy a sheen as possible, Brooks never explores the broader implications of the Dunn character, such as thorough discussion of how prominently Dunn's religious background figures in the chemistry of her personality, an unfortunate omission in light of the film's generally mindless quality...
...still had an original fire in it that shows in his first collection, released in 1974. The collection traced Elton's history on the Top 40 from the beautiful "Your Song" through his rise to superstardom and his music's shift toward the loud and outrageous in driving, mindless songs like "Bennie and the Jets" or "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting...
...others at the time to see the atrocities the United States government would commit in Southeast Asia, Halberstam arrived at a different conclusion by 1962--that our handling of Vietnam was doomed, and that the government was on the "wrong side of history." "American optimism," he says, "was clearly mindless." The U.S. government had the wrong sense of the people, while the Vietcong knew all too well the nature of the people they were fighting...
Silber had attacked aspects of the station's programming in a letter calling for "an end to mindless and illiterate chatter," and to the advocacy of "quack psychotherapy," and any form of drug abuse...