Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvanias, Peabodys, Oscars, Grammies, Christophers, Tonys and countless other awards had already been announced. What could the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences do to make its own Emmy awards add up to something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few deserving winners carefully and present the prizes on a tasteful show. But this time television avoided the obvious. In a season dominated by dull shows, the three-city, 42-Emmy marathon packaged for the academy by NBC last week managed to stand out as one of the worst...
...plays, by Harvey White and Deric Washburn, received an enthusiastic reception yesterday from a sizable mob of theatrical types and other mortals. Neither meaningless nor messianic, the two pieces display humor, occasional wit and much technical skill, and under the aegis of the Harvard Dramatic Club, they were well and speedily performed. Anyone who has a special interest in local dramatics should not fail to see them a repeat performance, today...
True, this increase provides a positive measure for the improved quality of each entering class, but conceivably the Dean's List will soon come to be meaningless as an academic achievement. Dean's List students who are only in the top fifty per cent of their class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could...
Mrs.Pratt and the admissions committee feel that statistics here would be "meaningless" considering the college's emphasis on a girl's background, record, recommendations and some "intuitive" feeling they might hold about a girl's chance for academic success...
Since the International Monetary Fund outlay will represent $1.4 billion in appropriations whether it is charged to 1959 or 1960, the issue might seem an empty quibble. But it is empty only if the idea of a balanced budget is itself meaningless. The President holds that a 1960 budget balance would be a highly valuable symbol of fiscal soundness, one that could shape the whole U.S. economy. If Congress shifts the IMF appropriation to 1960, it will wreck any hope of a 1960 budget balance-and will destroy the symbol...