Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Koestler's new book, The Lotus and the Robot: His main conclusion-that it is useless to look to Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance-runs counter to fashionable Western intellectual longings. See RELIGION, Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis...
...rips this statement apart: can the Governor devise better challenges that the gang-leader? are these mysterious energies undifferentiated? where can a young man now find a greater 'togetherness' than in the strict conformity of the gang? The official practice, Goodman charges, is to write these boys off as useless and try to cajole or baffle them into harmlessness...
...short, Kennedy or Nixon? is a brilliant piece of campaign propaganda. But sloppy and blindly partisan reasoning render it almost useless as a handbook for the discriminating undecided voter upon whom, if the pundits are right, the election depends...
Kennedy on the speaker's rostrum is tense and brief. Although his speechwriters work hard at their craft, Kennedy makes so many cuts and interpolations that advance copies of his text are almost useless. Says Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: "The difference between Stevenson and Kennedy is that Adlai puts subordinate clauses in all the speeches you write and Jack takes them out." Frequently, sensing the mood of his audience. Kennedy discards his prepared text altogether and speaks fluently off the cuff (both Nixon and Kennedy are at their best in ad-lib situations ). His speeches are breathlessly brief: never more...
...Miller-Atheneum ($4.50). Somewhere, some time, in southeastern Europe, the remnants of a beaten army shuffle into the city of Drohitz there to regroup before facing an unidentified enemy once more. These are the same weary, mud-stained troops who fought a hopeless battle for a useless hill in Allegorist Fü;p-Miller's The Night of Time, May 9, 1955); and to them Drohitz is something more than a well-fed peasant town. It is the focus of their tront-lme dreams, a city of dazzling peacetime riches, of sunny, soft-bodied girls strolling along...