Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wasting any less time lurking on Gchat, perusing your favorite blogs, stalking your section crush on Facebook, or watching whole seasons of TV shows on DVD. In the interest of enlivening your procrastination routine, it’s important to periodically discover new and more mindless diversions. So the next time you’re enduring the agonizing 72 minutes before you can treat yourself to more Megavideo, try a few of these on for size...
...Saks Inc. This year, savings are up and credit-card use is down, which is good--sort of. Yet keep in mind that the Pilgrims were barely eking out a living, surviving in squalor. They had no access to credit. Thrift is a great virtue, but a little mindless spending this season couldn't hurt...
...Strauss, who was 100 when he died on Oct. 30 in Paris, also transformed notions about tribal societies. When he entered the field of anthropology in the 1930s, "primitive peoples" were regarded pretty much as just that--mindless and crude. Lvi-Strauss penetrated the intricacy of their myths and cultural practices and found tribal peoples to be sophisticated and intellectually curious, a picture of them he laid out in his 1962 book The Savage Mind. And in his four-volume Mythologies, he showed the immense complexity behind the stories tribal people use to explain the world...
...Spin the Bottle” is an instance of this indulgence. The chorus goes “I’m in love with you, you’re in love with me.” This track in many ways exemplifies the album: while the lyrics are fairly mindless, the music is redeemed through its copious hooks and infectious dancability. The simplicity of the lyrics encourages singing along even at first listen and the rhythmic guitars inspire instant foot tapping...
...Islamabad's broad, historical abdication of any government's most essential responsibility: taking care of its own people. A good - nay, great - start would be to strengthen secular schools, so that education is not hijacked by those madrasahs valuing reckless faith over studied reason and mutating misguided youths into mindless fanatics. Many of those leaders were created by a military establishment to harass India. But today, the real enemy is within, a radicalism that, like Frankenstein's monster, has turned on its former patron. What they once sowed, Pakistanis are now - tragically and shamefully - having to reap...