Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center, attributes the change to a mood of helplessness in a world where "things seem to be falling apart." In response to a question about the future, those who believed in the devil also tended to think that things were getting worse. Trying to make sense of a senseless world, Nunn said, many people "look for scapegoats like the devil...
Good old Henry. Just one of the boys. He can laugh and smile. Could he really be the man who brought you Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the Christmas bombings, the main architect of the foreign policy that brought senseless suffering to so many...
...lacked. Mannucci heads a special plain-clothes corps aimed at gaining arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted for prison terms of seven years and more. Mannucci uses most of his guile and gall to manufacture evidence. But his atavistic instincts are intact when he blackjacks a captured Mafioso senseless, or thrusts a gun under the nose of a loan shark caught...
...Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of schools in Oakland. Authorities expect that Patricia's kidnapers may well ultimately demand their release. Beyond that, some law-enforcement officials despair that, following the skyjacking syndrome, the S.L.A.'s sudden notoriety may already have loosed the seed of example for future senseless terrorism?even if, like kidnapers in the great majority of cases handled by the FBI, this group is caught...
...Theater of the Absurd is based on an alliance of ideology and form which demonstrates the cultural isolation of modern man. The assumption behind the movement is that man has been cut off from the religious faith and the certitudes of the past. All of his actions are senseless. They have no context. In line with this ideology, the dramatists of the Absurd school have rejected the rational dramatic devices of traditional theater. Blatant incongruity and senselessness replace familiar logical forms. Simple stage sets become the best representation of the modern world...