Word: meaninglessness
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...apparently working through a grapevine to the prisoners on Koje Island, engineered the kidnaping of General Dodd. They also presumably directed the ensuing parleys which produced the astounding message from General Colson that the U.N. had been guilty of "forcible screening" (TIME, May 19), a statement which is either meaningless or untrue...
...Meaningless Bullets. Orwell showed what has since become clear even to U.S. liberals, that the Communists used Spain's civil war for their own purposes, worked as hard to destroy their Loyalist allies as they did to defeat Franco. But today the best of Homage to Catalonia is its crisply accurate description...
...life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night the meaningless bullets wandering across the empty valleys and only by some rare improbable chance getting home on a human body...
...opposite pole of character stands Fomin, a teen-age Communist. Fearless and obedient, his mind rattling with party slogans, Fomin is both admirable and terrifying in his strength-the strength of a man to whom morality is meaningless. In the Stalinist future, Fomin is certain...
Three months in this "model" home, he said, was sufficient to produce marked changes in the babies' personalities. He showed eight-month-old twin boys, one of whom was arrested at the three-month level of development, while his brother made the vague, meaningless gestures of an idiot. Even more striking was a 15-month-old girl who also had failed to progress beyond the normal three-month level; she shrank back in wild-eyed withdrawal when the doctor approached...