Word: meaninglessness
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...about as playful as a Detroit assembly line. The assembly-line touch might even be called the essence of Gower Champion. As a director, he is the relentless master of mindless mechanics. He has never paid more than trifling attention to the meaning of a show. A virtually meaningless show like Irene is an irresistible challenge to him since he can drive the cast and dancers into assembling the pieces, faster and faster and faster. As a result, his direction, like his choreography, slants all of his work toward farce, since that is a genre that depends on enforced pace...
...TIME Reporter-Researcher Eileen Shields did in a polygraph test at Dale System headquarters. By trying to remain calm and control her physical responses, she successfully convinced her questioner that she was 26 years old instead of her correct age, 29. "I tried to think of no as a meaningless word, just as easy to say as yes," she recalls. The operator eventually determined that she was lying, but only after he began to monitor her blood pressure in addition to her breathing and perspiration...
...case the words of such an act as the Income Tax, for example, merely dance before my eyes in a meaningless procession; cross-reference to cross-reference, exception upon exception-couched in abstract terms that offer no handle to seize hold...
...Moynihan myth of the black matriarchy. And continually, still, we miss the union and explication of our perceptions of the reality through which we are living, and through which we wish to live; simply because it is so easy to accept the idealizations, those titular and usually meaningless idealizations of our being...
What has happened over the last week holds out little prospect that a lasting peace is coming rapidly to Indochina. Accords in Laos and Vietnam have stopped neither air attacks in Laos nor ground fighting in South Vietnam. Violations of some protocols of the January agreement and the meaningless execution of others demonstrate the nature of the truce. And the Congressional unwillingness to support American reparations is a continuing demonstration of the spirit in which this country waged...