Word: meaninglessness
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Krapp, stumbling through meaningless and totally self-referential rituals with his tapes, exemplifies life at an absolute standstill, paralyzed further by the authoritative presence of technology. His endless recycling of a few sparse impressions via his tapes serves only to lock him into the same room, situation, round of thought at the only new material comes in bizarre introspective snatches, such as his sensual enjoyment of the word "spool" (happened on by accident in the tape-playing instructions), or his momentary impulse to look up in a dictionary a word he once knew...
When four separate motions were proposed slightly altering a preliminary plan to place two freshmen representatives on the agenda-setting administrative committee, the potential for debate was endless. Colantuono averted disaster by consistently refusing to allow meaningless discussion to continue. And, at a more critical juncture, when a few members grumbled about the fact that sexual harassment would be discussed in council and not in committee, Colantuono explained that he viewed the agenda item as an important and topical one, and gained unanimous consent to continue...
...council's first committee meetings today and tomorrow, Colantuono will urge the academics, communications and finance, residential, social, and student services groups to single out one or two major priorities, and pursue them immediately. "We have to avoid finding substantive issues, giving them superficial discussion in council and passing meaningless resolutions before moving onto something else," Colantuono says. "If we do that, we'll be doing the student body a disservice." He wants "people to get used to dealing with this body in a professional way," a goal which seems to be his primary one in the two months left...
...Robert Levy, dean of the Tufts School of Medicine, dismissed the exemption as "meaningless." "We would be forced to develop a disposal facility only for medicine and bioresearch which would be unreasonably expensive and unreasonably burdemone for the citizens of Massachusetts," he added
...policy. A considerable understatement: the report advocates nothing less than a policy of forgiveness toward practicing homosexuals and contains a strong condemnation of church theology. It specifically criticizes the U.S. bishops, the Vatican and Pope John Paul II for inferior scholarship and says that traditional church views are "practically meaningless and pastorally useless." The report offers a list of 54 proposals for church action, including the end of sexual-preference screening for parochial school jobs, adoption or foster care; admission of openly "self-accepting" homosexuals as candidates to be priests and nuns; and the encouragement of gay student groups...