Word: aimlessness
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Claire Messud’s latest novel, “The Emperor’s Children,” accomplishes precisely this; it is an enchanting comedy of manners about the New York glitterati and three aimless, prodigiously talented Ivy League graduates on the precipice of turning 30 but lacking manifest achievements to match their self-vaunted promise...
...says, referring to the groups of radical terrorists Islamists. “But how do you drain the swamp?” asks Thomas H. Baranga, an economics teaching fellow and tutor in Quincy. And of course, the conversation lasts for hours. But it’s not totally aimless. “It’s a more focused discussion than at a bar or in a dining hall, but our conversation is allowed to wander,” admits McMillian. In the wee hours of the morning, McMillian’s eight erudite guests trickle off into...
...Solomon, not on auxiliary concerns. We applaud the efforts of Lambda, the Law School’s gay rights activist group, to protest DADT purposefully and effectively, and we wish that more undergraduates would follow Lambda’s lead. Regrettably, some undergraduates have chosen instead to hold aimless blanket protests of the military at large, including the inane recent “die-in” outside last Friday’s career fair, rather than focus on the military’s discriminatory policies. Such activists conflate a desire to serve our nation with support for the Bush...
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...