Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farthest from the minds of people so engaged is the idea that they are being educated; if they thought so, many would run, not walk, to the nearest exit. But the fact remains. Here, cramming is rare; tutoring schools, so incredible as to be ridiculous; ghost-writing, pointless. Here is the "essence of the educational process" which "furnishes the student with the tools to learn and the will to know...
...that the music of Bach and Mozart is "pluck-a-pluck" when played on the instruments for which it was written is as pointless as to say that of Liszt is "crash-a-crash." The whole article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...Rumania, Germany might swallow both on its inevitable way to get at oil-drilling, grain-bearing Rumania. Last week, with Hitler going hammer & tongs after Poland, Hungary's historic ally, Hungary seemed a likely next under the hammer. With this in prospect, worrying over long-lost Transylvania seemed pointless indeed...
Gray, unaccented, often pointless, Back Door to Heaven shows the progress of dim-witted Frankie Rogers (Wallace Ford) from the wrong side of the tracks to the wrong side of the bars. Largely a one-man job, the picture owes its sincerity and its faults to husky, sentimental Director...
Last week, with the "extremists" howling that the long-sought capture of Suchow would be a pointless victory unless the army was allowed to press on to Hankow, China's makeshift capital, Premier Konoye was persuaded to their side. Promising a "quick victory," he reshuffled his Cabinet, called to three key posts two of the nation's most influential military men and the top-rank Japanese financier. The Premier urged upon the new Cabinet a "renewed determination to attain Japan's fixed objective (complete conquest) in China...