Word: meaninglessness
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...stone and steel hammock slung between topless towers. Times Square at Night is a glaring latticework of light and darkness. "The shock of Times Square was almost brutal," Gromaire says. "I have seen photos and colored prints of the 'Great White Way,' but they are empty and meaningless when compared with reality...
...began its regular color schedule, which will gradually be expanded to 20 hours of color a week: one hour in the morning before 11, two hours in the late afternoon, and two hours on Sunday. For the millions whose black-and-white sets will pick up nothing but meaningless squiggles from CBS during those hours, CBS President Frank Stanton hopefully asserted that colorsets would be coming off U.S. assembly lines by Sept...
...allegiance, that strength which kept the totem valid long after its vital life force had disappeared. The formal totem became so fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his ideals and his gods but reluctantly, and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting its true sense...
...good time, Ridgway was following, however, and there was some political uproar last week over whether he should or should not cross the 38th parallel. The uproar was largely meaningless, because: 1) the U.N. had already authorized MacArthur to operate anywhere in Korea, and the authorization remained valid until withdrawn; 2) for military rather than political reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff begrudged every mile of northward advance. With every mile Ridgway moved northward, the Communist supply lines from their Manchurian "sanctuary" grew shorter (therefore less vulnerable to air attack), and the U.N. lines grew longer...
Labor recently gained a victory for its point of view on escalator clauses by withdrawing from the mobilization machinery. This is no solution. The dangers of inflation are very great and at the moment very near. What is needed is an intelligent, non-inflationary wage policy not the meaningless, indefinite cooperation and general changes of Mr. Wilson's attitude proposed by the editorial...