Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early play In the Jungle of the Cities, the Agassiz players have grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...Brecht left some extraneous, aborted lines of action in the play and even more half-hearted speeches elucidating motivation, which rightfully enough is an obscene word in a play which is a succession of naked images. Garga has a mother who accomplishes nothing and then leaves in a pointless flourish. And he has a sister copied out of Dostoyevsky, played by Carrie Rose as a perverted Chekhov ingenue...
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Translating the old story into contemporary idiom, Barthelme goes wild with words. His amusingly refurbished novel of the absurd is as episodic and pointless as a kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
...Your Mideast coverage illustrates the ineffectiveness of the U.N. as a peacekeeper. U Thant's wishy-washy attempt to discuss the issue with Nasser, his pulling out of troops, and the pointless speeches by delegates show the urgent need for reform...
...There's poetry all over the place," says Robert Lowell. "The world is swimming with it. I think more people write it, and there are more ways to write it. It's almost pointless-there's no money in it-but a lot of them become teachers, and a lot of them write quite good poems and read to a lot of people. Poets are a more accepted part of society, and I don't know if it's bad for us or not, but it's pleasanter. I don't suppose even...