Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sorensen doeen't have much luck with the staging either. After the painfully clear exposition of the robbery in the script, it's pointless to accent the obvious by having two scenes close with Paul malevolently eyeing the safe...
Albert Camus died eight years ago, at 46, in an auto crash-a pointless death that served to emphasize the pointless absurdities of life, which he so painfully tried to comprehend...
Richard Cluster '68, a staff member on the SDS newspaper, The Old MOLE, said SDS recognizes differences between Humphrey and Nixon, but insists it is pointless to vote for either...
...that such attacks may easily degenerate into meaningless polemics and counter-productive confrontations. Therefore, we find such conduct unacceptable in the pursuit of objective truth. In closing, we wish to express our support of the investigative efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee and urge that, in the future, such pointless attacks as this be avoided by all parties concerned. Clyde Lindsay '69 and 17 other black students
...unprofessional lack of interest in discovering what an author really wrote. In a pair of scathing articles for the New York Review of Books, Critic Edmund Wilson recently added his eminent voice to the quarrel. He suggested that a number of leading literary experts are now engaged in a pointless exercise in scholarship that amounts to an outrageous boondoggle...