Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIS MEANINGLESS consensus, however, is not as harmless as it looks. It has, in fact, the potential to undercut anti-war sentiment in two significant ways. It vindicates and humanizes supporters of the administration: See, they say with a complacent shrug, we're not so bad. We, too, oppose barbarism...
...phenomenon is almost too basic to be faced; responses to it have ranged from Rousseau'sinsistence that evil is illusory to Jean Genet's perverse, delighted acceptance of it as life's only real value. For the atheist, evil is the ultimate testimony to the meaningless absurdity of life. If God's will implies th torture of an innocent child, insists Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, "I most respectfully return him the ticket...
...walked down 44th Street wondering if a Harvard Club could possibly be anything but a granfalloon after all. As Vonnegut says, a granfalloon is "A seeming team that is meaningless in terms of the way God gets things done"-like all the people from Indiana or the International Order of Odd Fellows or Leverett House. And if the Harvard Club were a granfalloon, would I be able to recognize it, let alone photograph it. "If you wish to study a granfalloon," continues Vonnegut, "just remove the skin of a toy balloon...
...champion, except for one great disadvantage: it has kept the same poor coach for all these years. I recommend to anyone interested in this appalling state of affairs, to journey over to Cumnock Field some evening, and watch head coach Yovicsin, say with dazzling eclat a few dull and meaningless words, and watch his team practice under the complete direction of his assistant coaches
...greenhouse in the park, decide to elope. The light falling on the scene is so broken that their faces and their surroundings are fragmented into patterns of light and dark. It becomes impossible to tell where a character ends and the setting begins; they have become a single meaningless surface. Indeed, one man watching them mistakes Christine for his own wife and later, mistaking Jurieu for Octave, shoots...