Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
...lawyers, including one man called the Minister in Charge of Recovering Stolen Government Property. Castro will doubtless be the biggest voice in the land for some time to come, and he gave signs of capricious temper. On his orders, Havana was closed down until early this week by a pointless general strike that cut food supplies and kept nerves on edge...
Partly responsible for U.S. language lacks, Conant charged, are two sorts of offenders: school boards which justify omission of third-and fourth-year language courses from high school curricula on the grounds that few students apply, and colleges, whose two-year language admission requirements give respectability to a brief, pointless period of study. "A two-year requirement is worse than none," said Conant. "If there is to be a requirement, it should mean mastery." He continued: "The lip service paid to foreign languages in the high school, is, I am afraid, a direct reflection of lip service paid...
...ultimate beginning but "merely a state of maximum contraction of a universe that had previously existed for an eternity of time." A semi-mystical attitude is that not only space but also time itself began with the primeval atom; to ask what came before it is therefore pointless...
...with them! They, too, don't want Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Dulles or any part of the Republican policy. With the possibility of the Democrats running things again in the U.S., they obviously feel there will be little trouble in getting us mixed up in another costly, bloody and pointless war-just like they did in Korea...