Word: meaninglessness
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...that plague business in other European countries. Today, 90% of all the goods flowing into West Germany from the dollar area have no import quotas v. 67% three years ago. Although there are some limits on foreign investment by German businessmen, they are so high as to be almost meaningless...
...coloring them simply and brightly. During World War I, Portuguese police who saw him painting enormous disks on vast expanses of canvas at his seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of drawing signals for German submarines. They found as many a gallerygoer has, that Delaunay's circles were meaningless. Delaunay's output was small: he painted only about 400 oils. When pressed to paint more pictures, he used to protest, "I can only paint when I have something to say." As he lay dying at 56, he murmured regretfully, "There's so much more I have...
Goodhart spoke on the subject of higher education as exemplified by the Harvard Law School. "It is meaningless to speak of education in the abstract," he said. "There must be some particular object...
...divergent approaches, it more often led to the irrelevancy of the material studied. The student who looked at a discipline from the outside seldom found it possible to use this approach for dealing with anything which really mattered to him He found himself regarding the academic life as a meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing endless alternatives until either madness or disaster followed his incapacity to exclude possibilities in favor...
...Meaningless Education