Word: meaninglessness
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...have to make an address," says Chicago Executives' Club President Clint Youle, who has heard hundreds of them. "They speak on subjects so lofty they cannot say anything that has not been said umpteen times before." Furthermore, says one Florida executive, many businessmen are barely articulate, mumble in meaningless cliches (some favorites: "broadly defined policies," "hitting the mark foursquare"), talk only to each other, and say only what they want to hear, "as if they were living in some kind of ghetto...
...shaky position by offering to act as intermediary between the village peasants, who are hiding, and the soldiers. The peasants are oxen, the soldiers wolves; Author Pick obviously intends his hero's predicament to represent that of humanity caught in a world of mindless placidity and meaningless violence...
...perhaps doesn't notice so much difference between large and small. I like to paint people at different levels, and sometimes with wheels under them so they can move about more quickly." He also uses giant faces, single eyes, fantastic animals, and meaningless signs to fill odd corners of his designs with elusive life. This week's show offered, amidst a host of similar fantasies, people on unicycles carrying dumbbells. The dumbbells. Kingman airily explained, "give weight to my painting." Turning serious, he added: "I'm disappointed when people take my work too seriously...
Camus posed the most difficult of all questions, slavery, and offered the most difficult of all answers, rebellion. Life was meaningless without two things--its senseless suffering, and the honorable facing of suffering...
...laws on marriage and divorce have been exposed," said the Yorkshire Post, "it has been in this pitiful and protracted case." Added the Evening Standard: "In legal mathematics two minuses add up to a plus, and double adultery can come to mean preservation of a marriage which has become meaningless...