Word: valueless
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...suggest that Harvard's meatless days are designed to soothe middle-class consciences is as valueless as pointing out that The Crimson's insistent demarcation of the true political path, be it ever so impossible to tread, is designed to soothe the conscience of Marxist boy-editors. It may be correct, but even if it isn't, who cares...
...bureaucracy presides over the university and acts to legitimize what students most fear, the corporate society. A formless and contentless University administration acting on principles of efficiency rather than excellence, reinforce student disillusionment with politics and social action. The Faculty, for the most part, is a model of detached, valueless celebrities subscribing tenaciously to the criteria of reputation. Economic calculations and salary substitute for institutional loyalty and indicate achievement. There is little significant discussion of personal philosophy giving meaning to life, or informing judgment. Instead only the rigors of description and evaluation of disciplinary views are discussed. The Faculty lives...
...Ironically, Freidin got no book at all out of the 1968 campaign. In 1972, he says, he knew "something fishy was going on" among the Republicans, but he was unaware of the Watergate secrets. After that story broke, he realized that any "inside" book he might do would be valueless. So he quit before the election and signed on with Hearst. Now, with his new notoriety, he claims to have a number of offers to write his inside book; he feels in demand again. This week he will be back in New York to see if Hearst editors share that...
...Last Tango has, after all, attracted as much serious acclaim as it has protest. What the new definition does is to shift an important tactical burden from the prosecution to the defense. Where in the past the state was often forced to produce expert testimony to prove a work valueless, now the defendant will most likely have to produce his own experts to testify to its value. Moreover, Burger specifically ruled that even without any expert testimony, judges and juries may conclude that a work is pornographic...
There is also danger in the notion that society can choose what it wants of science and destroy what it feels is valueless or threatening. "Science is indivisible," Lessing states, "a seamless web of accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear...