Word: meaninglessness
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...House rejected legislation that would allow the U.S. to join in the new quota agreement. Though Administration leaders count on eventual approval, the action jolted Brazilians into asking President Humberto Castello Branco to convene an emergency meeting of all world coffee producers. The new quotas, argued Brazilian congressmen, are meaningless without U.S. participation...
...birth-control pill. He welcomed Swiss Theologian Hans Küng, one of Europe's most advanced Catholic thinkers, to Boston, and wrote a preface for Küng's latest book, Structures of the Church. Cushing says that the Index of Forbidden Books is "meaningless," and "they should get rid of the whole thing." He wants to drop the promises that non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages must make to raise their children as Catholics; to ask a believing Protestant to "sign on the dotted line" strikes Cushing as a violation of conscience...
Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech last night was more than just a bad speech. That it a long, disgusting--often meaningless--string of platitudes, empty words, and obscure philosophical meanderings is hardly worth mentioning. The tepid reaction he received from a hall-full of his most ardent supporters is eloquent testimony to this fact. But what is much more worrisome is what he was thinking last night while he was mouthing such nothings. Not one specific issue or controversy was mentioned in the Senator's speech. It was obvious, however, that his supporters were thinking of specifics when they gave...
...Ayer of Oxford and Vienna's Rudolf Carnap, now a professor emeritus at U.C.L.A., argued that the only meaningful propositions were the analytic statements of logic and mathematics, or statements that could be verified by empirical procedures-which meant that the ethereal language of theology was literally meaningless...
...Golden Bears, rowing at a furious 39-40 beat, recorded Wednesday's best time, 6:22.4, winning their heat as expected. But the comparative times were essentially meaningless, since a strong wind of 12-15 miles per hour cut down the times of the crews which rowed after California...