Word: meaninglessness
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This Administration has accomplished nothing more than passing the meaningless Middle East doctrine. It is not the role of Congress to lead, and even Lyndon Johnson and the boys are coming around to this view. The democrats are no longer willing to fight for Eisenhower's program, unless he will get in the fight...
...most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity...
...these statistics, of course, can become meaningless on the whims of the weather. The Crimson's times this year have fluctuated from 8:48 against Syracuse to over 9:30 against Princeton. This last clocking looks somewhat ridiculous compared with the other, but it was accomplished while rowing into the teeth of a typical Charles River gale...
Start Toward Stability. In proclaiming that the "independence and integrity" of Jordan are "vital," the U.S. had helped to save the day. Yet it is not Jordan's meaningless borders, its desert wastes, its desolate economy, or its restless population that are "vital" to the U.S. What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which...
...incline to the abolitionists' favor, were it not for the problem of supplying employers and graduate schools with indications of the student's college efforts. This is a considerable factor. But if tests can be developed to perform this function satisfactorily, then grades would become useless as well as meaningless. With this possibility in mind, the consequences of the established system should receive serious constructive efforts at evaluation and reconsideration...