Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the frankly ridiculous letter of Miss Linda Eldredge [May 11]. What broken promises, which worthless agreements, and just which reforms is she referring to? And what does she know about world politics, strategy, history, social patterns? And just how are things "getting worse each day"? Did she ever take the time to find out just how much better a place the world is today for just how many more people than it was a mere 50 years ago? What progress there has been in countless fields from medicine to farming to justice? I doubt it. But she wants...
Violence? I abhor it. Somehow throughout all the broken promises and worthless agreements and "reforms," I still abhor it and condemn it. We cannot change this world through violence-we can only end it. But I wonder if people will work in any other way. The young people-my brothers -I see them growing ugly and irrational and I hear them saying things that are not different from Johnson's words and justifications about Viet Nam. Our parents hate us, our politicians desert us, our hopes simply grew old and died...
...course impossible for students to convincingly portray a demi-atlas and a serpent. Gordon Snyder as Antony was the less auspicious failure, while Susan Yakutis, charged with the greatest woman's role in drama, seemed more afraid than madequate. Snyder lapsed into manneristic anger, often indulging in worthless shouting; Miss Yakutis lapsed into the torpor rather than the lightning of a serpent, and was manneristic in her fire. Neither penetrated to the fire of the heroic ardor of will, the incandescent poignancy of love. A line shouted is a line destroyed. Neither actor was able to go beyond the lines...
...Magarolas state so glibly that "Cuba's past underdevelopment is a myth?" Not only industrialized and non-"dependence on agriculture," but also economic self-sufficiency and basic human survival for everyone-those are the criteria. Figures are worthless bunk. A 1956 per-capital income of $520 is the average of the disparate incomes of millionaires, executives, doctors, campesinos earning less than $100 a year, prostitutes, and the unemployed (over 10 per cent). I lived in Cuba in that year of 1956, and people in Colon and Pinar de Rio didn't even seem to be sharing in that $520. Venezucla...
Even more acutely, a number of experts suggest that many black children fail in school because that is precisely what their teachers expect of them. When teachers view students as uneducable, they say, the children eventually conform to that negative expectation. Those taught to feel worthless soon act worthless...