Word: meaninglessness
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...lawyer, the Detroit doctor counseled Susan Williams, 52, for months and was at her side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life, for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine, had not assisted in the death. Fieger said Kevorkian would turn himself over to the authorities if asked, but cautioned, "He will starve himself in prison. You can count on him ending his life in prison...
...much weight as complaints about the temperature when reviewing an art show. Ms. S. had the opportunity to read the play and comment on how Gammons successfully or unsatisfactorally handled the demands of the script Artaud called "unstageable." Then maybe she could think of how and why such a "meaningless" show caught the fancy of the Harvard theatergoers last weekend, seating over 100 people in three nights...
...Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside story" of reform...
...When you see the police officer, go away because no matter what you do you are guilty." Gwendolyn Young, executive director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission in Kentucky, declared to a hundred people at a protest rally in Louisville that "in America black life is meaningless and black rights do not exist." To many blacks, the fact that the not-guilty verdicts were handed down by a jury that included no blacks (though it did have one Asian and one Hispanic) virtually proves that the criminal-justice system is ruled by bias and that they cannot...
Although the games were meaningless for the Harvard baseball team, the results were pretty good...