Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useless effort. When McLoone recieved the Nelson Unsung Hero Award, for his overshadowed performances in the two-mile, he mentioned that he had expected to awarded the "Unheroed Singer" award, in tribute to his legendary entertainment at the Eliot Lounge...
...less thoroughly than he designed sets and selected objects for them. But the most important element of his art is visual style, for its give us a sense that the objects and spaces he shows are real. Without this sense, all the correct detail in the world would be useless...
...American college students-who are trying to salvage what they can from Marxism after its corruption by Soviet totalitarianism. To Djilas, the two are inseparable. For him, Stalin was not a ruthless aberration but the inevitable consummation of Marxism: theory made practice. The ironclad Marxist system is all but useless for historical interpretation, thinks Djilas. It endures only as a revolutionary ideology promising instant transformation to those who are desperate, impoverished or ignorant of history...
...superiors must be combined with an intense competitiveness in his relations with his peers. And most importantly, the bureaucrat must be motivated primarily by his desire for a reward (money, status, prestige) which is external to the work process itself. Like the industrial worker, the bureaucrat is useless to his masters unless he is economically "rational". This means that he must be willing to work solely for money or for some other reward that can be controlled by his employers, and will not seriously insist that his work be meaningful or personally rewarding and enjoyable if he is to perform...
...same time challenging the second. If we say that the schools should not socialize people for alienated work situations, we must be prepared to argue that alienated work situations are not part and parcel of all advanced societies. Otherwise changing the schools could only create happy but useless people who would then have to be supported by "properly" trained workers...