Word: meaninglessness
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...fact remains that humans are fragile and small collections of stuff that, put in the wrong place at the right time, disappear entirely from the face of the earth. Though it is nice to have aspirations, they will not change the inevitable end. If everything is meaningless and impermanent, you might ask, why write anything...
...bizarre poems and short stories in "Horse's Neck" are at best a sort of spiritual autobiography; at worst, shallow and meaningless...
...stance on South Africa to political motivations. If such accusations are used to discredit all movements, then activism is dead. The activists' belief that they are at the top of the moral heirarchy encourages them to dismiss any other solutions to the South African problem as purely political and meaningless. This assumption of moral rectitude constructs an artificial barrier between different ways of dealing with South Africa. And it is this assumption which paralyzes the Harvard community and impedes any effort to cooperate and make a real, long-term contribution to the 22 million South African Blacks...
...public statement. U.S. officials admit that two or more years of tests on animals will be needed to determine whether NPPD poses a serious threat to health. That displeased many Americans at the Spaso House briefing, who felt they were being given a warning so vague as to be meaningless. "You've told us the stuff is there, but you haven't told us where you found it or where we might come in contact with it," the husband of an American journalist protested to Charge d'Affaires Combs. Asked what precautions to take, Charles Brodine, a State Department doctor...
...clever journalist who played off of other people's stupidity rather than his own. Audiences want heroes these day, not dupes. That's why Eddie Murphy just bought his fifth Rolls. If Chase is to retain a respectable piece of the humor market, he should drop the meaningless, foolish and disjointed antics concentrating on outwitting others rather than prostrating himself. Don't bother with European Vacation...