Word: meaninglessness
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...mahogany palace discussing socialism, concerned with denting a new car in the same moment that he oversees Maoist slogans being painted on the wall-all these dichotomies that beg to be resolved are not resolved, and the final, apparent integration of the classes through marriage is facile and meaningless...
...When he first announced that All-Star Game selection would be done by the fans instead of the players, the "dream game" suddenly became a nightmare. Customers, rightfully charging that several deserving prospects were left off the ballot, howled about "Bowie's boo-boo." Players complained about the "meaningless popularity contest." As it happened, a large write-in vote rectified most of the injustices of the ballot. And a poll of the players showed that they agreed with twelve of the 16 starters (managers pick the pitchers) selected by the fans. Though Kuhn may not have planned it that...
...Charles Mathias were planning to propose the repeal of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, he stole the issue out from under the doves by offering it himself. Fulbright was outraged by the theft and voted against the repeal because the manner in which it was offered was "meaningless." To Dole's satisfaction and amusement, the repeal passed easily, 81 to 10. "Everyone's thieving in the Senate," Dole said. "You've got to hang on to the ball, or someone else will pick...
...billion in foreign debts and the postwar world's worst inflation. The erstwhile "President for Life" viewed himself as a dedicated revolutionary and nationalist. But his flaming oratory and grandiose promises never produced a better life for his countrymen, nor any voice for them in his "guided democracy." Meaningless slogans and acronyms echoed in the void. Sukarno's big movement on the world stage was the 1955 Bandung Conference of Nonaligned Nations, after which he moved with aplomb in Washington, Moscow or Peking. He spouted Lincoln as easily as Lenin...
...apart. Finally, in a transport of sorrow, I decided to return to Rome. Ah, but then at the airport I saw the adorable autoball player and followed him to a hotel. When I learned he was not my Gregory after all, my slender dream shattered into a thousand meaningless fragments...