Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...make it accord with the culture of to-day. In the music, particularly, it is very hard to reconcile the many difficulties. A strict following of the old forms would hardly pass with a modern audience; it would sound ridiculous at the least, while it would be certainly pointless to introduce music as it is now. These obstacles, it is understood, have been overcome to a great extent and the music which has already been written is thought to be near enough to the ancient and yet not so unique as to sound strange to our ears...
...Blessed Cynic," though it is not noticeable on account of its merit. It is not at all above the author's former work. a severe enough criticism in itself. The College Kodaks are not very good, the first is poor, the second is fair, the fifth is pointless, while the last is neither funny nor pleasing. A redeeming feature of the number is "The Picture That Was Turned Towards The Wall." It is a good story and is well told. "Berenice" is a peculiar story and the point is singularly obscure. "Ave Pueritia" is a dainty bit of verse with...
...extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready not bad. The second is a fair bit of description but is destinctly not a College Kodak. After reading the third over three times, we continue to wonder why it was printed. The fourth is the work...
OUTING.If the editors of Outing only knew it, they are accumulating for their magazine a great deal of disfavor by the endless continuation of that eternally pointless "drool" known as "Harry's Career at Yale." Patience ceases to be a virtue after the fiftieth chapter has been printed and the persistency of the publishers looks to us like obstinacy. It is time Mr. John Seymour would withdraw from the public gaze; let him retire and digest the notoriety his story has brought...
...Bowker's Ideal" and "Three Sketches" end the number. The former is original and amusing, but rather rambling and pointless in spite of its humor. The latter is a good collection of descriptive work, the first and second being especially well written...