Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salim, the protagionist, is an archetypal Naipaul character--East Indian, sallow, passive and alienated. Salim's lethargy reflects his anxiety about the ultimate, senseless violence. As the president's forces creep deeper into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
...nation's judicial system be so unjust that Dan White of San Francisco can get off with manslaughter after committing two senseless murders, and John Spenkelink [June 4] is executed...
...jurors, the defense counsel and the psychiatrists are trying to tell us that Dan White [May 28] did not premeditate the senseless killings of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk, they've got to be the insane ones...
...Harvard Faculty Club in 1973, the members of the Boston Study Group met weekly for four years, talking, writing, criticizing, trying to find a way to "re-orient American foreign policy" away from future Hiroshimas and Vietnams. In The Price of Defense, they have made sense of the senseless--they have brought order to the chaos of American foreign and military policy. The present system rests on the assumption that more military spending means a safer nation, and it fails to subordinate military spending to the government's foreign policy goals. The system does not budget money lot specific policy...
...with many more freedoms, and many more questions than can be easily answered. None of the old sources of authority and knowledge are completely trusted. But if students continue to cultivate their freedoms and continue to pose the questions, the rage unleashed ten years ago will not have been senseless, or wasted...