Word: meaninglessness
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...fallacies in his arguments are obvious. Lifton has established that the survivors of Hiroshima feel a sense of unlimited destruction, and feel that their traditional ways of relating to immortality are meaningless, but he has failed to show that these survivors participate in the drug culture, the revolutionary movement or any of the other "modes of immortality" to which he refers. He certainly never manages to connect the cultural revolution with the Hiroshima atrocity, or to prove that the bombing had any personal psychological effect on Mao or any of the other leaders of China...
...philosophy here is decidedly not anti-male. The emphasis is on women, fucked up and fucked over, but the men.-Joseph Volpe (Wolf) and David Starr Klein (Hunter)-are choosing among equally meaningless roles. At one point when Aili, forced into the role of "Big Mama," urges her husband out of bed and out to work, he protests, "But I went to work yesterday." And when Mary's daddy cheerfully attempts to teach her a song-"Roll me over/ in the clover/ do it again!"-her mother grabs the child away in horror. Daddy tears his hair, crushed...
When Chief Justice Earl Warren ran the Supreme Court, he particularly enjoyed an old ritual: the formal welcoming of lawyers newly admitted to practice before the nation's highest tribunal. The lawyers loved Warren's warm remarks, which papered over the fact that admission is a relatively meaningless honor. All it takes is two sponsors, three years' good standing before the highest court of a state, and a $25 fee. Few lawyers actually practice before the Supreme Court, but those who are admitted proudly receive a suitable-for-framing certificate to adorn the office wall...
...Meaningless Diplomas. Often this pattern has little to do with abilities or ambitions. Convinced that most slum kids are doomed to failure, some New York teachers tend to guarantee it. Instead of being encouraged to take academic courses aimed at college, such students are commonly shunted into low-level programs that lead to vocational and "general" diplomas. Standards can be scandalous: one girl got a B in English for pasting together a scrapbook of pictures to illustrate the meanings of words. The kids-and their potential employers-know that a general diploma is virtually meaningless. Substantial numbers of New York...
...late-game rally was exciting but meaningless. Harvard had already lost the game when Crone and Craven started moving the ball...