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...have an ironic strength that makes their message as clear as a scream in the street. Though Ferré is a natural-born plaintiff, his songs never argue that life is absurd. "Despair," he says, "is a way of hiding things from one's self." Life is not pointless, just outrageously wrong...
...often when a good book or play becomes a movie, the script writers fail to see that they have good things in front of their noses; passionate (and pointless) adaptation turned such solid novels as Exodus and Advise and Consent into mediocre cinema. Fortunately, the men who took Gore Vidal's recent hit play The Best Man and made it into a movie had the sense to leave well enough alone. As a result, they have put together a terrific film...
...tactic capable of moving the Senate to activity in the area of civil rights can hardly be described as "pointless...
Increasingly, local civil rights demonstrators seem to employ pointless, often destructive and sometimes dangerous tactics. New Yorkers last week got a foretaste of what the Brooklyn CORE group's plan might mean: even without a deliberate stall-in, the opening-day crowd at new Shea Stadium, hard by the fairgrounds, caused a memorable traffic jam. The stall-in idea dismayed even the militant national leaders of CORE, who suspended the Brooklyn chapter...
...instance, I was illegally made union secretary (each ship is a local); and among the complaints, the "beefs," it was easy to see the source of difficulties, which is that technology is eliminating ships, men, and badly needed overtime. Trying to help, you involve yourself in long, utterly pointless arguments. Standing aside, there is only an empty desire to help...