Word: meaninglessness
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...Cuba a laboratory model to show Latin America that a socialist economy cannot decently survive. The trouble is that everybody knows that the U.S. has so restricted the possibility of development on the island--in fact has so narrowly defined the terms of the experiment--that the experiment is meaningless. Nobody is impressed...
Protestants and even other Catholics joined in chiding America. Dr. Truman Douglass of the United Church of Christ called the editorial "ill-advised." The lay edited Catholic weekly Commonweal pointed out that "our whole system would become meaningless if the various minority groups were made to fear any resort to the courts to judge their claims...
...wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions of emotion over trifling problems! What meaningless violence and meaningless...
Driver and his team are ruthlessly pruning archaisms from their translation: saith and doth are out; thee and thou are not used, except when God is addressed. Lord (in capital letters) will be used in place of Jehovah-a philologically meaningless attempt to render the sacred Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH. The translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest...
acting as though he considers them meaningless. Democrats running in marginal districts or states have indicated fear of what the Republicans will do with the Teddy issue, capping the picture of the President's other relatives and friends swarming around official Washington. Candidates who feel threatened by this are a bit sardonic at presidential expressions of concern for their elections. The President cannot disclaim responsibility for his brother's candidacy...