Word: meaninglessness
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Dada was not all meaningless. It developed bold new techniques of poster art, laid some obvious groundwork for surrealism. But inevitably the movement was a victim of its own excesses. During the middle '20s, Dada suddenly died out and surrealism took its place...
Only superlatives could possibly do justice to Tonight We Sing, and, though excessive praise can be as meaningless as biased panning, the film is one big superlative: most wonderful, most beautiful, most magnificent. The array of talent is incredible, from the concert stage, from ballet, from the opera, each individual performer worthy of a full length movie...
...Stalin's lust for more power, and the praises from the people he had fooled, are meaningless to him now. We read of his mother's tender care for him, her teachings and desires that he should be good for humanity and himself . . . What is there left to say but to quote the Bible: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" MRS. W. A. EDLUND Denver...
...pattern for living within this situation. That pattern has taken several forms, but the one expounded most frequently in his novels is expressed by the father in Wealey Jackson: "There is no truth excepting it is from love." "What this has meant is that his characters ignore the "meaningless" world and seek a haven in love-love for each other, love for the good which exists in everyone...
...last week, holes were being knocked in the fair-trade fence all around the lot. In New Jersey, the state supreme court handed down a decision that merchants who had not signed such agreements could disregard them. Fair-trade lobbyists said the decision was meaningless because it applied to injunctions which had been issued prior to the new 1952 federal law. Some Jersey merchants thought otherwise. The big chain of Kings Super Markets (20 stores) immediately started cutting fair-traded prices...