Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sprint 62 yds. for another TD and riddle the Cowboy defenses for 232 yds. in 20 carries as Cleveland coasted to its sec ond straight victory, 41-24. "If we had Jimmy Brown," said Dallas Coach Tom Landry, "we would have to change our whole offensive system. Needless to say, I'd be willing...
However, we wonder why instructors from Government 1, Humanities 2 and 5, Natural Sciences 2, and Social Sciences 4, must be forced into Memorial Hall or similar congeries. Like Economics 1 and other elementary General Education courses, their courses could be sectioned at the first meetings, without a needless loss of time and adrenaline...
Sense of Loss. Nothing that Lear has done or will do can account for the disasters that overtake him or for the death of Cordelia, which Carnovsky finds "so needless it is unbearable." As Carnovsky interprets him, Lear is a man stripped of everything except the strength to protest. His final act, he points out, "is to accuse the gods, to say if you can do this, then life is not worth living. Lear then consents to die." What gives Lear dignity at last is his unflinching involvement in his own destruction. Through him, Carnovsky thinks, Shakespeare was saying...
...white, his face deeply lined, Illia personifies almost everything that Argentina craves and lacks -maturity and stability. Ever since the military ousted President Arturo Frondizi in March 1962, the rich land of grain and beef has drifted from crisis to crisis and from military faction to military faction, amid needless inflation, trade deficits and an eroding peso. Just before last month's twice-delayed popular elections finally came up, there were strong fears that the military would annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through a popular front...
...African critics take Schweitzer's insistence on primitiveness as an insult, or a needless prolongation of "the white man's burden." Symbolically, they point out, he and his staff still wear pith helmets. The concept that the Dark Continent can make more progress through independence is, to Schweitzer, folly. Told that the Peace Corps is building primary schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there...