Word: meaninglessness
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...work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. If this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos...
...unanimous vote-a kind of Laotian troika. Four Cabinet posts (including Economics and Information) go to the Communists, and four others (including Finance and Education) to Phoumi's antiCommunists. Phoumi's longtime ally. Prince Boun Oum. will resign as Premier and retire from active politics to his meaningless lifetime post as Inspector General of the realm. The remaining eleven Cabinet posts go to Souvanna and his neutralist supporters...
...picking College's growing academic already made large inroads extra-curricular enterprises. It has, J. Bender '27, former Dean , pointed out in his final prepared the way for an academic elitism that would make Harvard home for brittle, sterile and practically no one else. It has begun to render meaningless concepts of a general, liberal...
...best poems, "The Idea of Order at Key West," Stevens wrote of watching a girl on the beach amidst "the meaningless plungings of water and the wind...
Supporting this theory are the wealth of allusions that lead nowhere and the names that become meaningless anagrams ("Onhava," the capital of Zembla, becomes Navaho; ex-Zemblan can lead to dis-Zemblan, dissembler, resembler). Nabokov himself insists that "no book should ever have a deliberate message. It should be a combination of harmony and pleasure." If it is a key to a door, "the most important thing is for the key to work; it is quite unimportant what lies behind the door." Whatever meaning or non-meaning lies behind the door, any reader can delight in watching the greatest verbal...