Word: meaninglessness
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...subject: "the meaningless...
...stone or bronze of any form whatsoever," said he, "will, helped by the skilled persuasion of venders, and often, I am sorry to say, financially involved and therefore perhaps not unbiased writers on art, be received with bated breath and called 'profound imponderables' or some such meaningless phrase. Accidental splashes of color or rags or sacking on canvas, the man will boldly tell you, is an art of great significance, and if you look at it long enough, 'will do something to you'; and we are all too timid to answer 'Nonsense...
...Last week the Senate Commerce Committee had nearly completed its study of a "truth-in-packaging" bill that would 1) require "simple, direct, accurate and visible information" on each container about the product's nature and quantity, 2) prohibit use of "deceptively shaped boxes, misleading pictures, confusing or meaningless adjectives, inappropriate size or quantity markings," 3) outlaw promotional devices "that promise nonexistent savings," and 4) institute "reasonable and appropriate weight standards to facilitate comparative shopping." Though pigeonholed since 1963, the bill is given a good chance of passage in an election year...
...take a dose," she said, "I plan it carefully, because I have new problems to deal with, and I forget after a number of months just what it was like." She feels that if one takes a drug more frequently and under less planned conditions, the experience can be meaningless...
...cannot abandon this idea: implicit in Christianity is the belief that Jesus supplanted the law of Moses, and that the churches represent a new Israel. In the current issue of the quarterly Judaism, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Ill., bluntly argues that theological discourse is meaningless, since "Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism." Even though the two faiths have a Bible to share, Berkovits notes, it means something entirely different to each. For the Jew, the Hebrew Bible is complete in itself; for the Christian, the Bible...