Word: soullessness
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...fact that the Harvard Corporation is an enormous, self-sustaining, soulless bureaucracy with no more concern for public service or even higher education than Microsoft. Which is not to say it has no concern for these things, but that they are a means to an end--the end of raising more money. When one considers the facts that Harvard controls more money than some nations, that last year its investment wizards created one billion dollars out of thin air, that it has a moral responsibility to contribute to its local community and, as it likes to boast, "serve mankind...
...thing that does get Lucas riled is criticism that dismisses Star Wars and some of his other films as mere popcorn or adrenaline movies, thrilling and technically adept but soulless. This line of thinking also lays blame at Lucas' door for the even more soulless likes of The Rock, along with responsibility for the so-called blockbuster mentality that currently plagues Hollywood. By way of a response, his publicists have even compiled statistics showing that Hollywood's ratio of "art films" to "blockbuster-type" movies has actually increased since...
...shaping our future really be the soulless, joyless, socially retarded supergeek described in your story? The God who created the Bill Gates you described did so by reverse-engineering Star Trek's Mr. Spock and leaving out all the good parts. MICHAEL J. MITCHELL SR. Chicago...
Picabia saw machinery as the prime metaphor of modern society and, particularly, of love. His most telling machine images were about sex. They present the act of love as a ballet of soulless machines, pistons inside cylinders, valves opening and closing, cogs driving other cogs. Though parts of his erotic gizmos are identifiable, their functions, beyond pushing, sliding and transmitting fluids...
...much better suited to us than the tired family values rhetoric of the one-sided contemporary political debate. Reich, we must remember, is the Secretary of Labor. He Understands work; he has spent much of his career thinking about work. As a result, Reich does not pit the soulless company man once again against the smiling, tanned familydad. Rather his portrait of the workaholic is sympathetic: "They love their job and find the world of spouse and kids harder to manage...