Word: meaninglessness
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...despite such a vast collection of meaningless and unrelated curia including one of President Dunster's undershirts filed under "small things," Shipton maintains that he does not run Harvard's junkheap. He has steadfastly refused a pair of shoes invented and offered by a student in 1936. THE ANGLER
...owner. Many a safe-owner picks a combination based on his address or birth date because it is easy to remember. But smart crooks, says Mosler, look up such information as a matter of simple routine in casing a job. Though harder to remember, the safest combination is a meaningless...
...will undoubtedly receive a flood of protests from horrified, or should I say enraged art lovers, following the much-too-generous presentation, in your Oct. 27 issue, of some of the smudgy and meaningless paintings submitted recently to the Pittsburgh Carnegie International art show . . . What on earth sane-minded people can see in these blotches of color is beyond me. Picasso was bad enough, but this is really the limit! Pittsburgh has long been noted for its smoky atmosphere, and I would not be a bit surprised if the soot coming out of its innumerable chimneys has finally obscured...
...original idea of telling just the family history. As it stands. East of Eden is a huge grab bag in which pointlessness and preposterous melodrama pop up as frequently as good storytelling and plausible conduct. Cathy's story, gamy, lurid, and told at tedious length, is all but meaningless. Almost as tiresome is the figure of Lee, the Trasks' trusted Chinese houseman, whose warmed-over Oriental wisdom and too gentle heart give the whole California story an overdose of stickiness...
...line, ridden by fear, bullied by threats and propaganda, and cozened by the vulgar mass arts and mechanical gadgets . . . a police state, ruled by Finance Capital through venal, illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total...