Word: worthlessness
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...absolutely worthless novel refreshes the spirit as little else can. Reading one is the literary equivalent of retreating to the cellar with a jug. Naturally it is not easy to find a good worthless novel, but this month the reader with a November in his soul is in luck. John D. MacDonald, the nation's best writer of no-qual crime fantasies, has turned out two splendid and utterly unmeritorious volumes...
...they and the Israelis have wasted billions of dollars throwing military hardware at each other. Are they now all eating better, getting better medical care, are their children going to better schools, etc., now that each side has captured some bombed-out villages and a few square miles of worthless desert? Insanity...
...Wall Street, most notably the temporary replacement of the old-line leadership by a crew of sideburned young "gunslingers." Throughout, Brooks steadily returns to his grand theme, which is Greek tragedy: financial hubris-exemplified by the belief that companies and brokers could go on forever peddling mountains of essentially worthless paper-leading swiftly and blindly to disaster...
...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...