Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While members of the Council and the two House Committees say they want to "work from within" the committee for reforms, many students in the other ten upperclass Houses--all of which decided this week or last to continue the boycott--say CRR is dangerous or useless, and in either case should be abolished...
...often at cross-purposes. Swiss and French avalanche dogs, trained to sniff out buried bodies, were thrown off the scent by powerful disinfectants that were sprayed on buildings to keep decaying bodies from spreading disease. French microphonic devices, flown in to monitor buildings for faint sounds of breathing, were useless in the din of bulldozers...
...even within marriage." In Milan's usually staid Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Manganelli sought to have the lust laugh. Life is so hard for the adulterer, he wrote sarcastically: an endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed all these woes because "you can have infidelity in your own house." Meanwhile, Italian feminists, ever ready to assail the Vatican, accused John Paul of male chauvinism because he spoke only of men lusting after women...
...Cambridge Board of Aldermen near the turn of the century. Most, though, didn't even bother to finish high school, realizing the training would not make it any easier to find jobs. "On the whole," one historian explains, "there is a deep-seated feeling that it is useless to attend school because of the impossibility of using commercially such education as one may secure...
McPhee made his reputation by writing well about a great variety of things-basketball players and orange growers; men who designed strange, useless aircraft; anachronistic citizens of the Hebrides or the Pine Barrens. His latest collection, Giving GoodWeight, which will be released in paperback next week, continues in the same expansive vein. Five stories this time-farmers who sell their produce in Manhattan, an engineer who decides the best site for a nuclear power plant is anchored off the Jersey Shore, a New York Times reporter given to playing pinball, a group of wealthy men making a canoe trip...