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...first half of a two-year $500,000 grant because of concerns about the organization's management. Several N.A.A.C.P. chapters have suspended dues payments for essentially the same reason. Meanwhile, even as other civil- rights organizations have reshaped their agendas, the N.A.A.C.P. flounders in histrionics and glitzy but pointless ceremonials. Says Evers: "It's the most critical period in the organization's history...
...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...
...allowing the use of textbooks, Assistant Professor Margo I. Seltzer rendered a test of the minute details of C programming pointless. The only thing that could be tested remained the students' ability to apply the knowledge that they had acquired. They still had to have a very complete working knowledge of the language, and they could use the textbook to recall fleeting little bits of information that really shouldn't have been necessary to memorize...
...that Jews executed Jesus as a sinner and a criminal, even to the extent of ignoring the role of the Romans." In modern times, Jews have adopted more favorable opinions about Jesus, just as Christians have worked to eradicate lingering anti-Semitism. But Cohen considers revisionism about the trial "pointless" because Jews cannot reasonably expect Christians to rewrite their Scriptures. Cohen himself thinks the Jewish leaders of the time did in fact decide to have Jesus killed. "Were their motives noble? I suppose they were. Did Jesus deserve to die? Probably...
...quoting directly from Bach, Mozart and other Germanic composers and then tearing them apart in a destructive analytical frenzy that would have terrified Freud. "I attempt to compose symphonies," Schnittke wrote in a program note to his Third Symphony, "although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless...