Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during one of the least convincing murder trials ever filmed, when it tries to mop up the whole mess by blaming it on the town's callousness and nasty-minded curiosity. Peyton Place is not nasty at all; in glowing...
...great joy of consumers, "list price" became almost a meaningless phrase in 1957. Stores, big and little, shaved prices to meet competition, notably that of the discount houses. But price alone was no guarantee of success in 1957's hotly competitive marketplace. With more choice than ever before, customers shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight...
...less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
Presumably, he wants the kind of continuity which produces meaning. Now it is true that scientists have discarded the possibility that time is discontinuous, since they feel that it would make experience meaningless. But how, I wonder, does Dr. Farnsworth expect the older generation to remedy this? Psychiatric evidence confirms the long recognized truth that those who find life meaningless are those who cannot accept the ideals of society, that is to say, the ideals of the older generation...
...misconception of the worth of the American high school. We have always overvalued it. It comes out that we have many more children in high school and in college than [Europeans] have in secondary schools and universities, and this makes us proud. But all of these comparisons are meaningless, because the European secondary school graduate has learned more than most of our college graduates; and as to the high school diploma, the less said about it the better...