Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Cage's a Cartridge Music hooted at the traditional techniques: the piano was struck, plucked, hammered, loaded with paper and blankets--all within a minutely-timed schedule whose details were as ironically pointless as incomprehensible...
...Avventura looking for La Dolce Vita, you will see no more than film clips showing people with too much money and too few principles, to whom everything is pointless. But you will also miss a story finely chiseled into a gem of photography...
Last week the U.N. appealed to both countries for a "peaceful settlement" of the issue. In The Netherlands, Foreign Minister Luns is propelled toward negotiation by the obvious reluctance of the Dutch to get involved in a pointless colonial war. A majority of the Cabinet also backs negotiations but a stubborn and potent minority, including Luns himself and Home Affairs Minister Edzo Toxopeus. wants Papuan self-determination guaranteed by the Indonesians before sitting down to the conference table. In Indonesia, Sukarno is restrained by the fact that an invasion of New Guinea is a far more risky military operation than...
...that the Security Council has proven itself incapable of acting, the United States must decide whether to push its condemnation of India onto the Assembly floor. Since the anti-colonialist bloc will undoubtedly vote down any motion of censure, the fight seems pointless. But Ambassador Stevenson has rightly emphasized that the real danger in India's resorting to force is the precedent it establishes; in Indonesia, on India's own borders, and in Africa, there are other nations eager to sieze land in the name of anti-colonialism. The United Nations must work some way of checking what may become...
...folksong sung in English, however, has always this advantage: the story may be understood. Folksongs are, by and large, short stories- however incomplete or pointless, mundane or supernatural, plaintive or snarling are best savored in the native tongue...