Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many developed latitudes are rough and unpredictable. Man wanted to subdue them, domesticate them. The logic of Progress has been to lift humanity out of the yearly cycles and into a higher trajectory. Progress was designed to be an ascendant journey, linear and always brightening, not a mere pointless circular plod around the calendar...
...Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims 1983 as the year "when it is really Out to be In," which rendered pointless the whole silly exercise...
...certain amount of stolid dogmatism deadens the debate. The terms themselves - free trade and protectionism - have be come inert and somewhat pointless. The best approach is one of subtle, intelligent and infinitely imaginative flexibility. The U.S. has its responsibilities as the economic power of the world. But it can still negotiate and persuade and improvise in the cause of its enlightened, aggressive self-interest. By Lance Morrow
...then disapproval. Many have even gone so far as to say that any Standing Committee member who doesn't vote as they tell him to vote should be removed. The very idea that one could be pulled from a Standing Committee for voting according to one's conscience makes pointless the entire concept of having representative government...
...Sixties. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) had first emerged 10 years earlier, boasting a provocative dissent from the ideals of liberal America. But by the time the organization had deteriorated into the underground Weatherman network, it had become associated chiefly with wrecked college administration buildings and pointless casualties in a perverse revolution...