Word: pointless
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...contradictions, to arrive at startling truths about American society. He insists that Americans must realize their culture is by nature a mixture. He contrasts the American obsession with racial and cultural purity to Mexico's ethic of mestizaje (cultural and racial mixing). He insists that the obsession has been pointless: the "mexicanization" of the U.S.A. has in many ways already occured. Quite literally, Rodriguez suggests that the food we put into our mouths, the music we listen to and the people we sleep with have the ability to change us. For Rodriguez, this is not simply a matter of "embracing...
...Little Red Corvette," from his mainstream breakthrough record 1999, could not have expressed a one-night stand in a more inventive and lyrical way. The overt sexuality of Prince's music could not be denied--it was neither pointless nor unimaginative...
Knowles' advice was not just pointless but sends Latino students the wrong message. His response minimized the seriousness the students' opinions deserve. Low representation on the Faculty of Latino professors is not a matter to be discussed just by campus race committees. It is a significant faculty problem that deserves immediate attention...
...Watergate prompt him to activism, even though he grew so disgusted he "no longer felt allegiance to the government." What did radicalize him, he says, was "having to bundle up and transport my increasingly ill lover to a welfare office every few months so bureaucrats could go through the pointless charade of recertifying a dying man's disability to work." So he began to join group after group and march in every demonstration he could find. This month the poet and floral decorator took on a new career, completing a certificate course at Boston University to become an AIDS educator...
Pragmatism required, I thought, that I attend a technical college. My hand quivered a little when it wrote a checkmark in the yesbox on the MIT reply card. I dreamt in July that I'd move into Harvard Yard in the fall. Pleasant thoughts about wrought-iron gates, about pointless but titillating intellectual arguments and about a huge, well-financed library danced about in my brain, but disappeared when I woke up and remembered which school I'd chosen. It didn't mater. Prospective engineers...