Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophies and religions with a basis of anthropocentrism, all histories backed by a belief in determinism--these are worthless, misleading and wrong if Monod's argument is believed. Man's position in nature is the result of pure random genetic accident; he, just like all other living beings, evolved the way he did by pure chance. Man's development and his histories similarly are neither mysterious nor predictable: they are, however, explicable: man's emotions and capacities have been predisposed, built into his chemical and genetic makeup, all by random molecular events...
...Schwartz, director of the Hennepin County program: "If the people with master's degrees who come to us had their intuitive skills, we'd be a lot further down the road." The once wayward Dan, now off probation, credits the Morins with transforming him from a worthless roustabout into a steadily employed construction worker with a union badge. "All my life I've been in trouble," he admits. "But they came over and made me talk. Now I feel grown up. It's not that they order you to do things. They're more like...
...South Vietnam's survival with America's safety and the preservation of liberty, it was stuck. The American people believed their leaders' rhetoric. Reading the Pentagon Papers, we sense the frustration of men who had sold a war so well that they could no longer think of declaring it worthless...
...town is also the home of the Centerville Recreational Facility, a detention camp for classical musicians, who are described as a socially unproductive and financially worthless class of people (portrayed in the film by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Surrounded by a high wooden fence that is topped with barbed wire and vigilantly patrolled by Nazi soldiers carrying rifles, the orchestra is forced to perform pop music (i.e., Zappa's score), since that is more lucrative...
Erwin traced a 20-year evolution in the thinking of inmates that has culminated, he said, in a "critical perception toward society." The fact that prisoners no longer feel "worthless" has enabled them to join together and demand to be treated fairly, he said...