Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born in the USA" make clear that Springsteen has a much saner view. He knows that the cause of the war was morally suspect. "They sent me off to some foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man." Springsteen, whose first drummer died in Vietnam, recognizes the senseless tragedy of the war. "I had a brother at Khe Sahn / Fighting off the Viet Cong / They're still there / He's all gone...
...writing, therefore, to ask for an explanation and reconsideration of the seemingly senseless decision to deny tenure to all three. I understand that explaining such a decision after the fact is hardly common practice, and reconsideration even less usual. It seems to me, however, that these are special cases, coming as they do so soon after Mr. Spence's announcement last spring that the University would begin to try to promote faculty members from within...
...senseless a definition could prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling...
...Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help you" -- but he soon enough acceded to her masochistic desires. Then Frank taught Jeffrey a lesson. He smeared lipstick on his own face, kissed Jeffrey hard on the mouth and beat him senseless. Sandy responds to such revelations like a child at the end of a nightmare fairy tale: "It's a strange world...
Last week citizens of Edmond, one of Oklahoma's most prosperous communities, tried to console one another in the aftermath of the senseless horror. Still shaken, postal employees returned to the office the morning after the tragedy. The brown linoleum floor had been freshly cleaned and waxed. Wreaths and baskets of flowers decorated the building and grounds. Along their routes, letter carriers found flowers and notes of condolence in mailboxes. Read one: "We cry with you, we pray for you, we care about you, our friends...