Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westbrook Pegler, back from his spring vacation with his adrenals fully recharged, read up on the Wall Street strike. Peg had some advice for the cops on how to handle pickets trying the "lie-down" technique: "They deserved to be clubbed senseless or, if that were necessary, to be clubbed to death in the interests of public order and government. The police should always use all the force necessary to maintain order and . . . should use more than is necessary, rather than less...
...scientific survey to prove that 99 out of 100 boys steal, said Father Harold Gardiner, S.J., an editor of America, parents would not demand a change in the larceny laws. Demanding a change in laws regulating sex on the basis of Kinsey's findings is just as senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand: only of doctors, penal authorities, judges social...
...whole crew look unwholesome, joyless, depressed-and even sinister. ... I now know why the political articles are always cynical, the education column senseless gibberish, the religion column gloomy rubbish, devoid of inspiration, hope or spiritual benefit...
With none of its rationalizations acceptable the action appears all the more senseless in the light of its implications in the larger picture of the total American foreign policy. Palestine held out the chance for the birth of a United Nations police force with Big Five unity attending as midwife. An American move killed that chance. Palestine held out the chance for the United States to back the "third force"--the Democratic-Socialist elements in the Jewish community--and as elsewhere the United States failed that force. Ineptitude, operating within the frame of a bankrupt policy added chaos...
...school program can come only from the School Committee and for this reason alone the election of a Mayor is a matter that should be placed outside the realm of petty politics. Along with the general loss of prestige for Plan E, a more specific evil of this senseless stalemate is its crippling effect on the city's school system...