Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casse Noisette (the revised Nutcracker Suite) the dancers' spirit combines with magnificent costuming to create a delightful fairyland. As originally choreographed by Ivanov, this ballet was rather pointless and uninspiring. Frederick Ashton's revision retains the more colorful scenes, includes a pas de deux, and makes the myth more enjoyable. The finale of Tchaikowsky's Suite, however, assigns too much force to the Kingdom of Ice scene, causing Pauline Harrop and Robert Lunnon to put excessive power into their gestures. A necessary and remarkable scenery change to the Kingdom of Sweets also demands awkward pushing motions...
Hoping that complaisant humanists will not continue to ignore dogma, Swanton goes on to say: "the whole process of existence would be pointless without a cosmic viewpoint on the seen and unseen." He warns, however, that teachers who bring up these issues must be "careful in their presentation and careful of their own lives...
...Moreover," he continued, "since for the same reason I cannot now be definite as to when I shall be free to come, it would be pointless to seek any further extension of the leave of absence already granted to me. I must, therefore, ask the University to accept my resignation as professor of Government...
...rather to suggest that the Smoker could be more useful if scheduled in the early fall. Because the Yardlings already have one opportunity "to get together for a good time," the Jubilee, and because a "get-acquainted" party is needed, we believe that the present Smoker is somewhat pointless...
Across the Reef. Dr. Halstead has learned to take nothing for granted. Once he was testing two puffers, identical except that one came from Hawaii and the other from the Phoenix Islands. The Hawaiian fish was harmless. It seemed pointless to test the other, but he did so anyway: the mouse died in convulsions in 4½ minutes. In this case the fish came from waters 2,000 miles apart, but Halstead has found that fish taken on one side of a reef may be safe, while those on the other side, a mile away, are deadly...