Word: meaninglessness
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...ziggurats of Mott's apple juice and Del Monte peaches towering up under the flat strip lighting. By now nobody who has seen a Warhol can enter a supermarket without the hallucinatory and even monstrous feeling that life is imitating art and that the principle of repetition and meaningless abundance on which Warhol's work is based has created its own landscape, as surely as Cezanne's brush "created" the expectations with which one might drive to Mont Sainte-Victoire. But the America of mass consumption has not been changed; only signed, and in invisible...
Ernest J. Gaines has not received anything like the attention he deserves, for he may just be the best black writer in America. He is so good, in fact, that he makes the category seem meaningless, though one of his principal subjects has been slavery-past and present...
...topic, Ali indicated that there has been a general failure on the part of the institutions of this country to aid the individual in his discovering of his purpose in life. Most institutions have been counter-productive, hindering the individual from finding his purpose by wasting his time in meaningless actions. Although this problem is now reaching epidemic proportions within the white community, it has long been virtually pandemic among black Americans. However, "There is a man in America named Elijah Muhammad. His followers are called Muslims. Not even one per cent of the black people in American follow Elijah...
...Republican with strong anti-Communist credentials, Nixon could afford such moves without undue fear of suffering domestic political damage. But the President's overtures seemed to be having no effect. The elimination of passport restrictions, for example, remained meaningless, since the Chinese refused to grant visas except to a few old friends like Author-Journalist Edgar Snow. "China continues in its determination to cast us in the devil's role," complained Nixon. "Our modest efforts to prove otherwise have not reduced Peking's doctrinaire enmity toward...
...Roman interpretation of infallibility claims so much that it becomes irrational and unreal, and if the claim is modified it becomes meaningless...