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...Guide will still never replace the Confidential Guide. For one thing, it's not funny. But as one source of information on courses, it has been useful. It can remain so only as long as it does not degenerate into statistical pedantry and become as laughably useless as some of the courses it must annually evaluate...
This is typical treatment, but it has a sad result. It prevents Lasch from considering that Skinner's case perhaps exemplifies the universal tendency of the unsupervised intellect to create systems and products which are useless, in jurious, or unacceptable to mere human its. Though it is heresy in some circles to suggest it, the proper as well as the actual test of ideas may prove to be their political usefulness and social acceptability not their academic popularity...
Firstly, I respect the right for any student to refuse to fast. I realize many people feel that the fast is a useless gesture, $1.25 is a small amount of money, or that the particular date of the fast was an inconvenience...
Animal-rights activists across the nation have come out in droves to denounce the operation as "useless" and "goulish tinkering." Also, several doctors and government officials have called for increased regulation of new procedures given the suddenness and uncensured nature of Bailey's operation...
...trivial pursuers. Who said "Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme, and George Bush's gee-whillikerisms at the other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting to see how they are dealt with outside the shouting matches...