Word: meaninglessness
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...ethnic only so long as it remains proletarian. But the time comes when large segments of the group are assimilated into the "middling and upper strata ... and look to others in the middling strata for friends, associates and marriage partners. To these people, ethnic politics is often embarrassing or meaningless." In New Haven, he set rough dates for the achievement of this state by various groups-the Germans by 1920, the Irish 1930, Russians 1940, Italians 1950, Negroes...
...Orleans court said that the New York court's interpretation would render the law "meaningless." Upholding the NLRB, the court also gave it primary jurisdiction over all unfair-representation cases in the Fifth Circuit, which covers Southern states. Since the NLRB is now the only forum for most such cases, aggrieved unionists will no longer be forced into lonely court battles at their own expense. NLRB lawyers will take over, giving complainants a far stronger ally than the new federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which fights union discrimination but sorely lacks enforcement powers...
...Bombs, guns, and air craft are all meaningless without men of conviction to back them...
Reporters, said Hart, inevitably slant the news - often by not covering it. He cited the case of his own truth-in-packaging bill, passed by Congress last month, which laid down new standards for labeling of packaged foods (meaningless designations like "giant half-quart" are forbidden; air space be tween the contents and the top of the box is regulated). The bill was generally reported in the daily press but ignored in many publications, particularly the women's magazines. They were "sensitive," said Hart, "because the food industry was opposed to it, and the food industry spends...
...Pageant of the Beasts was an in-joke, written for the benefit of a tightly knit little in-group, and virtually meaningless to anyone else. The beasts of the tale were the actors, administrators, and friends of the Loeb Drama Center. The pageant was the Loeb's great Shakespeare Festival, a project which had already alienated or attracted enough people to buy up Beasts' full press...