Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation to Stevenson seems like a last minute gesture and, really, pointless since Cornell can't offer the Democrats free TV time. If the Republicans hold a nation-wide TV press conference for the Vice-President, that is fine; if Cornell holds an educational workshop with the Vice-President, that is fine, too, if it is planned from the beginning as part of a non-partisan program. But to permit the combination of the two is highly regrettable for any university, and highly misleading for the public...
There is less magic in the minor fare offered by the Royal Danes-Graduation Ball is even more giddy than Ballet Theater's version; Dream Pictures is a pointless period piece that does, however, include a hilarious dance by three doddering octogenarian couples. While it is at the Met, the company will offer the first U.S. performances of Romeo and Juliet, with the Prokofiev score and new choreography by Frederick Ashton. Then it will visit ten cities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to give more Americans a chance to see ballet storyful, mellow and magical...
...have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive...
...means of strengthening the British hand in a resumption of negotiations with the Cypriot nationalists. The tip-off that the Cypriots were ready to talk had come in a letter from Archbishop Makarios to British Labor M.P. Francis Noel-Baker. Speaking of Cyprus Governor Sir John Harding's "pointless decision to exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice of so many human beings, both British and Cypriot...
Groucho Marx: "Many of the funny things he does would seem pointless coming from someone else . . . There's something about Groucho that makes him funny just standing there...