Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monastery that Van de Wetering found was in the holy city of Kyoto. He appeared there without introduction and was accepted without surprise. In a brief interview, the resident Zen master said that he was to stay at least eight months, a shorter period would be worthless. The strain of monastery routine was much more severe than he was prepared for. The monks were allowed only four hours of sleep. There was rough physical work to be done, and six to eight hours of meditation each day. Meditation suggests tranquillity not torture, but sitting motionless for even a few minutes...
Nickel Mountain is as powerful and stately as an old green Hudson. Worthless perhaps on the superhighways of the modern novel, impressive in its solid inflexibility...
...sham. Two wealthy, upper-class homosexuals make the mistake of marrying and then spend the next half-century trying to keep up appearances. Judgment hinges on an evaluation of Vita's sincerity and the objectivity of her son. If they deluded themselves, this Portrait of a Marriage is worthless. Most of the other books produced by the family are more glib and polished--but whether or not they will be remembered depends on the long-run verdict on the free, civilized form of marriage these two proper Britons pioneered. Whether they did so as a last fling of aristocratic contempt...
...toward a more analytic type of learning at the expense of a large vocabulary of twelve-letter words. Unfortunately, it seems that America's primary means of judging her youth's intelligence has not changed to evaluate more fairly these differently educated minds. The SAT tests a worthless ability-that of memorizing words you will rarely use in high school, college or later life, unless, of course, you are employed writing...
...neglect of a client's case. And that can often be easily remedied by a telephone call from a local bar association. The offense that most often leads to discipline is also all too unexceptional: stealing a client's money. One Illinois lawyer who gave clients worthless checks and improper shares of personal-injury settlements was disbarred after the state supreme court determined that his actions amounted to misappropriation of funds. Attitudes toward offenses often vary. Tax evasion, for example, prompts little or no action in some states, while bringing virtually automatic disbarment in others. Similarly, a homosexual...