Word: aimlessness
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John's and Mary's lives go down unintended paths. And when the 1960s hit, the era dances away one by one with their kids. War, pregnancy, aimless adventure and the appeal of doing not much at all shape the Keanes' various fates, although shape may be too strong a word. Through all of this they keep some attachment to their Catholic faith. If nothing else, it bears into the perplexing world two essential ideas, pity and compassion--essential for people making their way through times they will never master, even if they were more masterful types...
Wandering the streets of St. Petersburg, which Bissell describes with luscious detail, Timothy is a spiritually fragmented man. Despite the companionship of his gay lover Sasha, Timothy is stuck in the aimless pursuit of curing his loneliness, and Bissell paints a movingly somber portrait that is never gloomy or drab. He wonderfully combines his bitingly sardonic (sometimes ironic) sense of humor with profound depictions of loneliness and emptiness...
...Oliver of his fallen hopes.The course received 72 applications this spring, but less than half of them were admitted. Even at that number, Mullins was forced to create two sections of about 15 students each.Oliver had to find academic inspiration elsewhere. For his current screenplay, a tale about an aimless undergraduate who wins the lottery two weeks before graduation, he drew from exercises he learned in a playwriting class he took last year.The class also kept the inspiration coming. “I was constantly having to come up with new stuff. Over the course of the year you come...
...define as he is to catch. In New York City, for example, police make arrests in only 2% to 3% of all reported cases. The vandal's deeds, as British Sociologist Stanley Cohen of England's University of Durham has observed, are commonly described as wanton, pointless, aimless, senseless, meaningless or mindless. Cohen is one of several social scientists who think that none of these objectives really apply...
Self-anointed revolutionaries and other theoreticians have tried throughout this century to make the theater esoteric and archetypal, depicting a delirious dreamscape, an incantatory religious ritual, a shower of aimless verbal fireworks or perhaps a murmured hint of psychotic menace. Too often setting such moods has been an end in itself rather than a means to what satisfies audiences: telling a coherent, affecting story. In the effort to avoid being old-fashioned, to prove that the stage has an authentic voice beyond the naturalism commonly found in film and TV, theater directors often turn their backs on narrative...