Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giant Camera Leaving the brawling partisans of the North Yard to their senseless excesses we come upon the cool, technological splendor of the Science Center. Look at it for a minute, and then say the first thing that comes into your mind. But it was Polaroid Land camera, because if you'll notice the Science Center looks just like the Polaroid that ate Manhattan. Why? Because Edwin H. Land '30, president of Polaroid, gave most of the money for its construction, and Harvard is traditionally grateful to its benefactors...
...depraved spree one afternoon, attacking passersby and savagely beating them, leaving five men hospitalized with skull fractures. Curiously enough, robbery was not the motive: no one knows what they were after, and the gang still has not been apprehended. Their little jaunt is not the first act of seemingly senseless violence, urban or otherwise, and it will not be the last, but it is nonetheless notable for its Clockwork Orange style of viciousness. Mugging is one thing, but splitting heads for the hell of it boggles the civilized mind...
...dangers of a new world war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Tito lectured party stalwarts on the need to raise productivity in Yugoslavia's worker-manager system of socialism. As for the country's future, he magisterially declared that any speculation was "really ridiculous and senseless. We look to tomorrow with confidence and optimism...
...recent move to castigate the FBI for alleged civil rights violations [April 24] is senseless. America is now so obsessed with protecting civil rights that it is hardly capable of securing itself against the disruptive and subversive elements within our society...
...final ending in Paris where the squad is left essentially where they started: without Cacciato, leaderless, without a sense of mission. The man who laughed has slipped away again, and Paul Berlin, left with his sense of obligation, climbs down from the observation tower to go back to the senseless war. Michael Herr relates in Dispatches the story of passing a blind man on a New York street with a friend who was a medic in Vietnam. Around the man's neck was a sign that read, "My Nights Are Darker Than Your Days." Herr and his friend looked...