Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the soldiers were doing with their tear gas and clubs. At one point, I started screaming, nearly hysterical, at the soldiers to stop what they were doing. I wanted to rip off my press badge and join the demonstrators, but I didn't. I felt sick and useless, watching and not acting. I did not know why I could not act. It was probably fear. I thought, and then I realized that I was coming face-to-face for the first time with some of the same conflicts that my friends were feeling, conflicts I had been sheltered from...
...long, verbose, tiresome, and pompous. When we told him, as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would give us no assistance and would do everything he could to restrain us from acquiring such a building...
...previous theatrical works-Laborintus, Circles, Passaggio-were promising examples of music as a "social act." At first, he explored opera, since it seemed to him that it offered the best form for social comment. Now he has no use for it. "As a musico-dramatic form, opera is completely useless," he says. In Sinfonia, Berio suggests a new kind of dramaturgy encompassing music, drama, word sounds and, eventually, lighting and stage effects. Other composers have attempted the same thing, but along the way they have lost the sound and the sense of music. In Berio's intensely affecting work...
There was no warning, beyond ominous arcs of green flares overhead. In Mexico City's Plaza of the Three Cultures, a student speaker had urged his 6,000 listeners to "please go home after this meeting is over. We do not believe in useless bloodshed." Suddenly, from one corner of the plaza, the troops appeared. They formed a cordon around the crowd and moved in - shooting and bayoneting as they went...
...bear. They've all resigned because, as the black kid says, "the man is too hard to please." But after the commercial we return to a scene of the three Mod-Squaders standing around on a beach, and ... they've nothing to do, they're aimless, drifting, feeling useless to themselves and society...