Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sure enough, she falls again, and thinks she has stripped her moral gears for keeps. At this logical jumping-off place for a French bedroom farce, Novelist Vincent Sheean, writing with perfect seriousness, has his heroine leap into Indian mysticism. In Sheean's handling, it is as crashingly pointless as a dive into an empty swimming pool...
Like the stories, the Advocate's poem are varied in subject matter and generally good. A section of Gerald Fitzgerald Garrison Prize poem, In Praise of Wisdom, has been included in the issue. Without the body of the work, this section is a bit pointless and certainly seems isolated, but one can still enjoy its phonetic merits. Fitzgerald's poem, I from this section, is a praise of God's power and omnipotence...
Excessive feeding during the first three stages is pointless, Moors concludes, because the body is not ready to take up proteins and calories...
...country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder; and in Channel Firing, the dead, stirred by great noises, rise from their graves only to be reassured by. God: "It's gunnery practise out at sea / Just as before you went below; / The world is as it used...
...veterans who have sacrificed and endured just as much as those who were fighting five years ago? Clearly, there is none. Congress, then, has a moral and a practical obligation to extend full benefits to these new veterans, and any bill that does not do so is worse than pointless...