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...mobile, solitary life: the sense of helplessness that descends when fighting with the phone company; the awkwardness connected with buying a gun; reading somebody's meaningless leftover notes in a rented memory typewriter; going to a Chinese hypnotist for writer's block; discovering why "deliberate, pointless boredom is a kind of menace, and a disturbing exercise of power." By the flares of such insights, one finds the way through Pitch Dark, a wise and beautifully shaped book...
...fiscal crisis provokes a lot of pointless posturing
Managers say competition with Eliot's delivery service would make it pointless for Kirkland to buy a grill and probably result in losses. Workers earn about $4.50 an hour, said co-manager James P. Lowe '85. "It pays about as much as a work study job, and it's at lot more exciting than passing out towels at the ITT," he explained...
...fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will continue to bicker and fight regardless of any foreign military presence. Foreign armies many times larger than a meager batallion of Marines have unsuccessfully tried to pacify Lebanon. Faced with a pointless, perepetuzl war of attrition Israel chose to withdraw. Why then is the United States becoming ever more enmeshed in this senseless conflict that can not but end in tragedy...
...many Marines. When asked whether he thought the U.S. should reevaluate the Marine presence in Lebanon, he replied. "No, we should send 10,000 more." To what end? Shall we sacrifice yet more young lives on the altar of national machismo? Shall we let the misery of this brutal, pointless, little war invade our homes and our daily lives? Let us at least learn from the sacrifice of those already dead in Beirut and not compound the tragedy of these past weeks. Mr. President, take the Marines out of Lebanon. John N. Ross...