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...necktie is not only the most useless item of apparel [Jan. 31]; it is also the most uncomfortable-a constant noose around a man's neck. The ladies are welcome to "strike back" as much as they wish...
...occupy a key position in the transformation of an idea into a product, he says, designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...
Both books belong to the same period in the author's richly pleated life, though it is practically useless to divide Burgess's relatively short and unusually prolific writing career into creative periods. Although light years away in style and impact, One Hand, like Clockwork, is an example of Burgess's concern that modern man has all but shut himself away from spiritual...
...Democratic Presidents, in turn, have also made efforts to respond to aspects of the condition of blacks in America. Some of these efforts have been purely political in motivation and equally useless in effect, others have grown out of a President's personal or legal convictions and have been significantly more valuable...
...vote in the national election that they had earlier given to the Republican candidate, it was not until 1916 that the party took practical recognition of this reality and adjusted its policy of delegate apportionment so that Southern blacks became as effectively powerless within the party as they were useless to the party in the national election...