Word: meaninglessness
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...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will present one of its monthly concerts in Sanders Theater this evening. Works by Bach, Stravinsky, and Brahms will be on the program. Yet to the overwhelming majority of music-lovers at the University, this information is both meaningless and frustrating. Tickets to the B.S.O. concerts at Sanders are sold only by season's subscription, and the subscribers list is a Who's Who of Faculty members, local alumni, and "friends of the University." The average student has about as much chance of hearing tonight's concert as he has of attending a meeting of the Corporation...
Then there are the programs that offer solutions to personal or social problems under the guise of religion. If there is Christian truth in them at all, it is generally a crumb fumbled off the whole, meaningless or misleading by itself: "For example, 'brotherhood' is lifted out of relation to God's Fatherhood, which is seldom mentioned . . . and mere brotherhood is offered in the name of Christianity as a nostrum to keep America strong. In the name of God, this kind of thing represents a prostitution of the Christian faith and a crucifixion anew of the Christ...
...important that the swirls and splashes convey nothing at all to the viewer, except an uneasy feeling that the artist must be energetic and very angry. But Mathieu's paintings surpass the average of their kind precisely because they fail to be quite meaningless. Despite himself, Mathieu's interlocked squiggles of toothpaste white, tarry black smears, and ocher, green and crimson flashes bring to mind the night driver's world of electric lights, flashing neon and high speeds...
...this "hardly contributing intellectually" to the College? Evidently some scholars fell there is a great value in athletics, a value that justifies the time and effort. Another group of men in college do not have strictly scholarly interest. To argue they are deprived of intellectual food by athletics is meaningless...