Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national security purposes, I repeat, they are totally worthless. Certainly, massive military forces can serve Pentagon aggressive purposes as in Korea and Indochina. Without military conscription, limited wars of naked and raw agression such as in Korea and Indochina would become impossible. It is absolutely absurd, it seems to me, to argue that a massive foreign military force could invade the United States in the thermo-nuclear age, and therefore we must be prepared to repel it with a massive military force. This is on a par with the biggest propaganda lies ever proposed by Goebbels and Hitler...
...Defenders died years ago. So did Slattery's People and every other show with any substance. And now Perry Mason (which even in its original form survived on style, not dramatic presentation of substantive issues) is back in a nearly worthless form. Perhaps the other two shows were too intellectual for their audience, but Perry Mason lasted nine years and declined in the ratings only after CBS scheduled it opposite Bonanza. It was immensely popular in its original form, yet in revival it has been reduced to the vapid TV norm...
Then there are the ring sellers whose wares are worthless. An expresident of The Crimson once told me that he was the only guy on his corridor who managed to evict the ring salesman who obnoxiously pushed his way into his room: "I told him I was a Seventh Day Adventist and that we aren't allowed to wear jewelry." If nothing else works, I guess you ought to give that...
...time," the unaffiliated rad said loftily, suggesting by his intonation that anyone who did so had absorbed the work ethic of monopoly capital as to be worthless for whatever revolutionary purpose he professed to serve. "I do it by length. Thirty-three and a half pages a night. I count pictures as half a page." One-upsmanship goes on at Harvard, too, and this conversation would not have been impossible at a Harvard demonstration. But it might have been less likely, just as there were probably fewer people at Harvard than in many other places who denounced demonstrators for their...
...Growers understand sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...