Word: meaninglessness
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...when you hit, it takes a long while, sometimes more than there is left of a season, to recover the investment. After that, the gravy rolls in for years. Hence it is possible to list with reasonable accuracy the losses suffered in any one year. But it is meaningless to contrast these losses only with the first blossoms of profits that will go on and on. A successful show makes money not only from its own extended run, but from road companies, records, movie sales, and other ancillary sources that the Times ignored...
Then, eleven days after drowning, he entered a terrifying crisis. The doctors still cannot pinpoint the cause of his relapse, but the boy became unconscious and uttered sudden, meaningless shrieks. He threshed around so violently that for two weeks he had to be sedated. For a month, it seemed that Roger's brain had been all but destroyed. He developed an enormous appetite and opened his mouth for food whenever his lips were touched. He went blind, and fell on his face against the bedpost when...
...drive the viewer's eye into more tranquil corners. Al Held boldly ladles as many as 30 layers of plastic Liquitex paint onto his huge canvases to spell out alphabets in monumental bulk. Slowly, as if one had stared for minutes at any word until it became meaningless, the letters cease being acceptable symbols for language, appear fake and finally turn repulsive. The viewer is challenged and taunted. Are they letters at all, an X or a T? Or are they girders...
...week a second company of 24 Hueys arrived at a new base near Vinh Long. "Operations were down in the hundreds a year ago," says General Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. "Now they're in the thousands." But normal battlefield statistics are largely meaningless. The Viet Cong's casualty rate is rising, but the Reds have actually increased their hard-core strength (to an estimated 25,000) by recruiting more peasants. And though the Reds are losing many weapons, those that they are capturing are modern mortars and machine guns, while those that...
When the surrogate deities fail him, the individual is left alone in an empty and meaningless universe. At that point, existentialism, which is the pragmatism of despair, tells him that he must act and seek out causes even though his very life is absurd...