Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, and from the White House steps declared: "I think we are willing to give them a damned fair proposition. I don't think they can rightly ask for more than that." Bridges' proposition: the Ikemen would get the assistant minority leader's post, plus the meaningless chairmanship of the Senate Republicans' Committee on Committees...
...Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...
Although "very impressive," the title "is both meaningless and misleading," one of the Scholars confesses. For neither is there a Scholar in each of the ten Yale colleges, nor are all of those in the program engaged in scholarship...
...blooded and personally anarchic, Wolfe recoiled at the restrictions of New England morals. He imagined that the entire weight of false convention was pressing in upon him. The Boston social structure seemed meaningless, and its products void of emotion, and therefore they were repugnant and disgusting. In Of Time and the River, which includes a rather distorted chronicle of the Harvard years, he mentions the coldness of New England, and his resultant inability to have a physical desire for any Boston woman...
...held by a new school of novelistless writers. From Cervantes to Hemingway, storytellers have assumed that man has hopes and aspirations, and that they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books by two charter members of the blob school...