Word: purposelessly
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...Said Dr. Allan V. Heely, headmaster of New Jersey's Lawrenceville School: "American education is . . . aimless, unorganized and purposeless...
...office but the civilian governments have not yet been set up, and when the high aims for which the war was fought disappear before the realities of incompetence, brutality, red tape, swollen eyes, dead bodies, ruined buildings, ruined lives, cynicism, contempt, and the starved inertia of purposeless living...
...place of the old concept of character determining destiny, Remains therefore substituted the miscellaneous, accidental, casual, purposeless or only half-purposeful existence. Experience consisted of fugitive impressions, words overheard, scenes glimpsed. Men of Good Will succeeds in communicating what Remains wanted it to communicate: the density and complexity of the modern world. It fails to record its simplicities...
...Areas peopled mainly by the foreign-born produce catatonic schizophrenia-a split personality which is purposeless, impulsive, confused, given either to excitement or to stupor...
Hoppy began to detect a change in undergraduates about 1931. He considered them irresponsible, purposeless, prone to self-pity. Said he: "One frequently gets the impression of a hitchhiking generation." He assailed the New Deal for its effect "on the imagination and aspiration of youth," told a graduating class: "No real friend of yours could wish that you should never face misfortune. ... It is not so that vigor of mind or strength of character is developed...