Word: pointlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that has been needed is a little encouragement for original work--lying dormant all around Harvard--to begin to replace the pointless revivals of shows that long ago overstayed their welcome on Broadway but are forever being resurrected at Harvard Radcliffe anyway...
...general. The victims of international capitalist plunder are coming together on a world scale, uniting against their common enemy. In retrospect, we can see that Malcolm's ideological development, his evolution from self-hate to nationalistic self-pride to internationalistic solidarity, was ahead of its time. While it is pointless to whine about "what he could have done" had he not died, it is essential to study, grasp, and put into practice the things he showed us while he lived...
...would be pointless to ask the U.S. to be hostile to Israel. But if you can reconcile your interests with those of the Arabs as well as Israel-a difficult equation-then peace will extend to the whole region. We ask you only to treat the Arabs as friends and put aside your big-stick policy. We are in contact with all parties, including the Palestinians. Our position is not rigid or extremist. We are not against moderation. We encouraged the efforts of Dr. Kissinger from the beginning, though it would have been possible for us to create problems...
...poke into agency offices, asking impertinent questions and sizing up the federal establishment. The winner of an Emmy and other awards, Rooney has written TV essays on such subjects as doors, chairs and bridges. His beat is not politics, and at first his meanderings through the capital seem almost pointless. Yet he is a master at extricating the revealing from the commonplace, and he soon accumulates enough eccentric encounters to indicate that Franz Kafka would feel at home in Washington today...
...business can be a saint. Helms knows his list of errors and misjudgments better than anybody else. At the same time, many of his successes and triumphs are not known and never will be. But the current charges of massive surveillance of American citizens, a kind of pointless but relentless assault on privacy, still do not add up. Helms' life has been dedicated in one way or another to opposing the abuse of power, outside and inside the U.S. Maybe some place, some time, something went wrong. If so, it is not on the record...