Word: meaninglessness
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...doclined to discuss details of the report "because if you release figures there are questions, and if you release more figure to answer the questions there are more questions, and soon all the figures are out." "They're meaningless unless you have someone to explain them," he added...
Whatever the result of Thursday's HCUA student government poll--and this is written before it is known--it must be meaningless. The HCUA asked two questions: 1) "Shall the HCUA be abolished, and 2) be replaced by the HUC and the HPC?" Unfortunately, they only provided space for one answer, YES or NO. Assuming HCUA members are intelligent enough to realize this inconsistency, they clearly chose to renege on a previous promise to allow the students to express a meaningful consensus on the future of student government at Harvard. We can only hope that the efforts of the study...
...Jackie and her sister, Princess Radziwill, into its cover act: WITH SADNESS WE REPORT: WHY JACKIE'S SISTER is A BAD INFLUENCE ON HER. In the past year, said Motion Picture, Princess Radziwill, described as a "jet-setter," has insistently urged her sorrowing sister "into this eddy of meaningless movement." With dismay the magazine also reported that Mrs. Kennedy had actually been seen in Shepheard's, the Manhattan discotheque that is "one of the jet-set's favorite rendezvous...
...successful Mississippi Project last summer, COFO concentrated on voter registration and freedom schools and did not integrate a single lunch-counter or hotel. This shift comes from a growing realization that winning the right to buy a hamburger in a white lunch-counter is a dead-end, and is meaningless for Negroes who do not have the money to pay for one anyway. Only when Negroes can vote, or exercise power in other ways, can they make the basic changes necessary to gain meaningful equality. But King has never passed beyond the stage of hamburger equality...
...offered neither excuse nor explanation for his Election Day defeat, insisted that his cause was noble and patriotic, proclaimed bleakly that the G.O.P. would become "meaningless" if it wandered from Goldwaterism into "the vanity of today's popularity...