Word: pointlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were obviously hurt. Their propaganda complained that Van Fleet's attacks were "openly inviting war" - a pointless accusation, in view of the fact that it was agreed when the truce talks started that the war would continue until a cease-fire was signed & sealed...
...informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous color and clear visual images. Here & there, The Watch has patches of writing as good as anything in Eboli. But its pace is slowed by irrelevant incidents and by tedious, pointless speeches on Italian politics. Few books have so sorely needed a firm editor...
...owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John H. Updike has flooded the issue with a number of poetic fragments varying greatly in content, but all alike in their tiresome banality. Charles C. Osborne '52 local short-distance swimmer (see CRIMSON, April 19) has contributed a totally pointless poem on men's underwear which is not much better. Least funny of all, however, are two burdensomely long long stories, one by Michael J. Arlen '52 obviously written to fill a gaping hole in the middle of the issue; another by Arlen and Thomas D. Edwards '53 can have...
...Trends. This research gives us more than detail; it helps give us structure-the true beginning, middle and end of a story. It is easy-and pointless-to say that bullfighting now faces the worst crisis in the history of the sport. But it is quite a different job to trace the factors which brought aficionados (including me) today's poor fare, and to show what these trends are likely to mean...
Even the singing is occasionally marred by poor dubbing-a surprising lapse in MGM's usual technical proficiency-and by pointless attempts to make Tenor Lanza look effortless while performing arias that ordinarily require opera singers to flex every muscle. But Lanza is in fine voice, and with such artists as the Met's Soprano Dorothy Kirsten and Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, he sings varied favorites by 13 composers from Verdi to Victor Herbert. On the program: La Donna E Mobile and the Quartet from Rigoletto; Vesti la Giubba from I Pagliacci; the Sextette from Lucia De Lammermoor...