Word: meaninglessness
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Standish Meacham, Jr., Winthrop House senior tutor, explained, "If a student's doing poorly, I want to find what's wrong, and PRL is meaningless for that." Grinning, he added, "But I do look at it now and then just to see if a student is above or below what they thought...
...Tigers (8-0), riding a second-half explosion by Cosmo Iacavazzi, subdued the Elis (6-1-1) and clinched the championship that they had to share last year with Dartmouth. Next week's Harvard-Yale game became meaningless, as far as the Ivy League title is concerned...
...Hampshire finally rid the state constitution of a pre-Civil War section giving draftees the option of buying their way out of military service; because the Federal Government has long since taken over the draft, the section was meaningless anyway...
When I read Camus' Caligula as a depressed sophomore, I was preoccupied with its central argument: what happens when a man accepts the meaninglessness of life and doggedly follows the logic of that position to its bitter conclusion? Pure logic dictates that if life is meaningless, so is death, and therefore Caligula's deliberately capricious murder of his friends and subjects is, however morbidly, rational. Yet Camus always argues that man must make a commitment to life in the face of the logic of meaninglessness...
...this ignorance is as much the fault of Goldwater as of the intellectuals. I do not think this is fair. It is necessary for a politician to assume an ideological background to which he refers, and it is inevitable that someone unfamiliar with that background will find his speeches meaningless...