Word: meaninglessness
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Though Stravinsky refers to Irving Fine as "my son," his compositions are distinguished by originality of style. In an attempt at classification, Boston critics have dubbed him a member of the Stravinsky-Piston-Boulanger school, but the title is essentially meaningless. He writes with extreme craftsmanship and ingenious contrapuntal technique, marked by a delicate sense of appropriateness and taste...
...Amir's police had ripped down the Pakistan national flag in one village, and in others were persecuting wearers of the Jinnah cap (a Persian lamb fez which serves as party badge). In Lahore, the Daily Pakistan Times sneered that the Amir's political reform was "meaningless," his jubilee show "grossly out of keeping with the needs of our people...
...that, it adds up to a unique evening. For it is not a musical as musicals have come to be known. Not quite everything works out joyfully in the end. Its songs are not superimposed more or less meaningless on its story; they seem to be what the characters would sing if they ever happened to burst into song. Its comedy characters are not simply eccentrics. Its here is not a Jack Armstrong who has taken singing lessons. Its cast is not just a collection of handsome people; almost everyone can act. It has no ballet...
...they would sieze all land from the landlords and the well-to-do farmers for redistribution, Aside from the fact that this would mean a massacre of three times the enormity of the Soviet "Khulak" liquidation, it would also mean agricultural collectivism, without which land-redistribution would be meaningless since "khulaks" would forever rise above the others and stifle them economically. As Russia's experience in the field of collectivization would be too valuable to be ignored, the Chinese Communists, regardless how different their "brand" of Communism is, would have to welcome Soviet technical, administrative, and material aid and advice...
...attempt to fulfill the epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...