Word: meaninglessness
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...business, his poor brain jerks under the impact of instructions (WALK-DON'T WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING...
...under the aegis of PL, has grown more and more isolated, the few who remain in the group have made crude, meaningless attacks on other Leftist groups which disagree with them. Opponents of PL are frequently labeled "cops," "anti-communists," "enemies of the party," or, in the cases of a lucky few, "honest center forces who have been misled by enemies of the party." In a typical name-calling display, an editorial in the November 1969 issue of Progressive Labor magazine described the Black Panther-sponsored conference to form a "united front against fascism" as follows: "Except...
Third-year student Sol Shapiro charged that "through bad faith and manipulation, those who have been played up in the press as candidates for dean had [this forum] changed to a general and meaningless topic...
...poll RUS uses to justify its demands is, like most polls in House dining rooms, unlikely to win prizes for efficiency. The categories are confusing, results of men at Radcliffe were mixed with those of women, and only 55 per cent responded. Further, the results are meaningless: Of course women would prefer a 2-1 ratio in the current coed Houses. Not only would this leave unchanged their chances of moving to a Harvard House while achieving a preferable ratio wherever they ended up, but it would also vastly improve their chances of moving to the more desirable Houses such...
...truest identity is that he is from Nowhere, U.S.A. "Regionless my placeless vowels, my sourceless consonants," Gibson ululates into the silence and emptiness-the somber and pervasive background of life that is Elkin's real concern. Like Scheherazade, Gibson holds fate off with talk, "life-giving and meaningless and sweet as appetite...