Word: worthlessness
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Nihilism is its own revenge after all. If you really want to say that writing plays is worthless, that the theater is a medium which only obstructs communication, that human experience cannot be displayed on a stage, you don't have to write a play to say it. You can wrte an essay or a poem or a novel or a letter to the CRIMSON...
...clear look at the phenomena of brotherly hate. A middle-aged no-good arrives at an industrial park to put the touch on his brother, who runs the place. He treads indifferently on the sensibilities of a couple of employees, listens stonily while his brother tells him he is worthless. But once he has the check in hand, he leaves with a sneer for his brother and, as a parting note, adds gratuitous slander of a girl they both knew years ago. That is all there is, or needs to be. In its small, nasty way, the story is perfect...
...songs and Buxtehude were quite tasteful together, triteness and conventionality did worm in elsewhere. It is hard to understand how Villa-Lobos could have written a song with such dreadful, simple-minded rhythm as The Little Train; nor is it easy to see why Yale sang it, and a worthless Swiss yodel song as well. And to top it off, they sang Fenno Heath's settings of three Blake poems, which employ only the most common place harmonies and rhythms and convey little of the poems' meanings. Indeed, several of the Whiffenpoofs' own songs were more imaginative. Heath's arrangements...
...court is properly unmoved, and Gorer is sent to prison for a year. Gorer fails, too, to make the pundits say why a "masterpiece" with a certain signature becomes worthless when the signature is changed...
...cancel its subscription to the Good Practices Code of the National Association of Broadcasters was not motivated solely by a desire to carry hard liquor advertising over its FM channel. WHRB, like many other radio stations in the country, believes that the NAB has deteriorated into an essentially worthless organization, which does not effectively fulfill the vital tasks of serving the American listening public and lobbying in Congress for the broadcasting industry...