Word: utilitarian
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...Burnam is more utilitarian than American Credo and is barely winged by Benchley, it is because his compendium contains more truth and less malice than its predecessors. The Dictionary of Misinformation misleads only once -in its title. Information is all that the volume contains: enough to keep the canny reader collecting bar bets for the rest of the year. Stefan Kanfer
...result, Who the Hell is William Loeb? is valuable only on a utilitarian plane. While it may temporarily shake Loeb's hegemony, Cash's readers will not be enlightened as to the role played by Loeb--and other Loebs around the country--in stimulating political confusion, in disguising real roots of discontent, and in thereby enforcing the dominance of the prevailing system...
Other respondents considered Central Square too ordinary a place to think of a story about. What did they mean by ordinary? Well, there are neighborhoods resembling it in a lot of people's home towns. Broadway in New York is flanked by a similar utilitarian snarl of dingy department stores and stark donut or submarine joints. From my own experience in Midwestern cities of about 200,000 inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody...
...entire history of the United States' post-World War II relations with Spain can be summed up in this little junket to Madrid: U.S. interests in Spain have always been tactical and utilitarian...
...justified." Moral outrage is brimming in all Glikes's statements. With an established scholarly reputation as an editor and publisher that he is not willing to hazard for one intractable writer, Glikes is looking forward to his day in court, when the facts will out. He has a utilitarian's faith in the ultimate triumph of Facts--"facts," he says, "that can be nailed to the wall...