Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Language, Truth and Logic, had "acquired almost the status of a philosophic Bible" at Oxford. It insisted that "value judgments" of beauty and goodness were, philosophically speaking, nonsense. They were moral sentiments, not facts at all. Such heresies, "Oxonian" thought, left no place for human values, created the moral void fascism required...
Following this prediction, Robbins three-man Council group has ordered some dozen precautionary measures for Monday's election, so that the administrative errors which made the last balloting void will not crop up again...
When the new Student Government officers were confronted with the results of the vote on Monday afternoon, they had a clear course of action before them. They should have declared the vote on the News void and waited for a petition for another ballot before taking any further action. Such a decision would have kept faith with the voters and followed a standard precedent for dealing with such problems...
...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...
...falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms. The lumpish, drooping legs bewail their mid-air uselessness; the head hangs horrified over the void. By its very color, the body mourns its own impending death, which the red beating heart denies...