Word: meaninglessness
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...approach of World War II, immature minds sought to escape the harsh reality of events by retreating to a speciously "realistic" ivory tower. Beguiled by the intellectual glibness of those elders who found war to be the product of profiteering, the undergraduate concluded that all war was meaningless, that international humanitarianism was only a term for national naivete, and that only in the "glorious isolation of the American eagle" lay the hope of the United States for peace. Accordingly, adolescents led peace strikes, the Oxford Union refused to die for king and country, and a not too far-sighted Crimson...
...Aritomo Yamagata, who almost single-handed created Japan's army and learned from Germany, "with consequences for the world," the usefulness of making that army free of civil authority; who, above all others, rendered the constitution meaningless...
...Chance on Love," contributed a major part to the worst program presented in Cambridge this season by the Boston symphony orchestra. Described by its perpetrator as "having certain earmarks of the sonata form without being written in that form at all," his Concerto for violin and orchestra was a meaningless mass of dissonances which effectively disguised the technical ability of the soloist, Miss Ruth Posselt. The allegro molto seemed to lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with...
...Russians fail to reach their winter objectives, they may have another chance when the ground dries in about two months. But the longer the Russians are delayed the more meaningless any eventual victory in the Donets-Dnieper salient would become. As in Tunisia, the Germans in south Russia-whether they eventually lose the campaign or not-have everything to gain by upsetting the Red Army's timetable. They would be better able to consolidate new positions, train much-needed reserves, replace some of their lost materiel. The next few weeks may well determine the outcome of the Russian...
Ambassador Hayes was deliberately making out a case for closer ties between Spain and the U.S., and some of his figures sounded bigger than they actually were (for example, on close examination his statement on gasoline was almost meaningless). But his statements shocked many citizens who remembered that Franco only three months ago specifically declared his admiration for the Axis, his loathing of the democracies, his desire for Axis victory in Europe...