Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stakhanovism is a marvellous invention for brisking up idleness (in old days there was the knout). Stakhanovism would be useless in a country where the workers all work. But out there, as soon as they are left alone, they become slack." The bleak impersonality of some model houses depressed him: "Can this depersonalization, towards which everything in the U. S. S. R. seems to tend, be considered as progress? For my part, I cannot believe it." The nearly universal conformity of opinion depressed him more. "In the U. S. S. R. everybody knows beforehand, once and for all, that...
Because the desire for peace is not universal today, Laski asserted, a world conference, led by President Roosevelt, would be useless and only a "heroic gesture." But, concerning the aloofness of the U. S. toward international affairs, he said, "I don't think America should wash its hands of responsibility as an effective impact in world problems...
...settled in one place, but they don't have to be. ... What I want is a chair- a Cathedra-which is not fastened down in one church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books for study; things of beauty to inspire; tools for work; pictures of society, the world, and the Church to challenge. These elements . . . can make...
...tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march, a grudge at troopers and gunners and wagoneers, a surfeit of hills and towns and faces and sunshine and rain of the Cumberland Valley. It was too many men and too few women, it was homesickness and yet wanderlust, and a cut finger which was slow to heal...
...labor union for which he lacks respect. Only when the employer bargains sincerely because of his respect for a capably led union will collective bargaining bring results. The sooner Congressmen realize that employer self interest and not government compulsion makes collective bargaining work, the sooner they will climinate a useless, unworkable and irritating section...