Word: meaninglessness
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...Howe reemphasized last night that this particular provision of the NDEA program is "fantastically unreal and meaningless...
...attempts have been made to "develop advertising support of existing publications." On the contrary, each issue of the Calendar carries advertising solicited in competition with other existing publications. Production has hardly been kept "inexpensive." And the third assurance-"to limit advertising to the cost of production"-becomes meaningless if costs are continually allowed to rise. If advertising should ever rise above production costs, costs could simply be increased to soak up available funds...
Wanna getta hiton B'way? Simple. Write one of those serio-comic-mystic-meaningless farces. How? Well, ecoutez...
...Italian husband of American cutie, because schnook and cutie have already hooked themselves up, and English and Italian want to effect a decoupling, an' what happens but that they [Anglo-Italian] fall in love, an' decide to throw away all their money, an' get all happy and mystic and meaningless an' stuff...
...hope and purpose in the hearts and minds of the hitherto depressed three-quarters of the world's population," writes Toynbee, "will stand out in retrospect as the epoch-making event of our age. As for the present-day conflict between competing ideologies, this will be as meaningless to our descendants, 300 years from now, as our 16th and 17th century ancestors' wars of religion already...