Word: meaninglessness
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...great things. "Isn't there a circle around my name?" he asks. The world that Mr. Hargrove paints in Memphis, Tennessee is sordid, phoney, materialistic. Yet the reason why the play fails is that Roy Wilson is no better than the world that he rebels against. His "martyrdom" is meaningless beyond the theatrical pathos which is quite effectively created. If the ethics of success or of religion fail to provide an answer, why a neurotic and selfish youth who wants to push a motorcycle? Donald Berry plays the role in the James Dean fashion that the halting dialogue seems...
...Colombian Temper. The clash at Praga, hot, fierce, and fought to the bitter end, was typical of this strange, confused, nearly meaningless war. Its causes are rooted deep in Colombian history and temperament, a striking national indifference to death and lust for combat going back to the battles and matings of the fearless Spanish conquistadors and the warlike native Chibcha Indians. Since Colombia became independent in 1819, the bloodshed has come mainly from Liberals fighting Conservatives, often in protest against a political defeat...
...folding the label over the hole and gluing the paper to itself rather than to the almost adhesive-proof wing. In 1950 and 1951 he tagged 3,000 butterflies, hopefully set them free, and waited for letters responding to the address tags. He got only one letter-from the meaningless distance of 40 miles...
...Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...
...transport is equally inadequate, Katzenbach continues, since 31 days would be needed to transport a combat-ready Marine division from the United States to the Middle East. To discuss 31-day movements is "almost meaningless," he quotes the Chief of Army Research and Development as saying...