Word: meaninglessness
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...passing a pious, meaningless resolution, the A. F. of L. convention evaded its most explosive issue...
...does it mean that they are particularly vulnerable to meaningless vehemence and invective. . . . The Latin American cannot be expected to react exactly as we do because he lacks 1) firsthand experience of the sustained and healthy functioning of democracy, 2) the fundamental mistrust of Hitler's word, fed in North Americans by the feeling of intimacy with the tragedies of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., given us by our press, our great magazines, our radio, which after all have no true counterpart even in the wealthiest metropolitan centres [in South America], and 3) sentiment or love of any kind...
...distinct worlds. They appeal to, or are expressions or, entirely different levels of emotion. They involve a clear dichotomy of human aesthetic response. People who have developed a sense sympathetic or responsive to classical music, and have heard little or no jazz, will argue that a swing classic is meaningless, superficial, or psycho-pathetic, depending usually on the degree to which it is hot. Such a comment is the product of unmitigated ignorance. The commenter is trying to pass judgment on the basis of his sense of classical-music values. He should be given to understand that this...
...more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly in the Bach Toccata and Fugue. To many, the swirls, squirls, blobs, and blotches of color on the screen were boring and meaningless. To me they were an exciting visualitation of exactly what happens in the mind when a Bach fugue is played. I agree with those who disliked Disney's Pastoral Symphony because it was artificial and not a little silly, and with those who thought most of The Rite of Spring pretty...
...Magic Bullet." For Reader Richert's edification, Einstein and Ehrlich and other great Jews are not considered Germans according to Nazi standards. They are "non-Aryan" and possess inferior blood. Their names should nob be mentioned in Nazi circles except for shame and degradation and their achievements are meaningless because they are ''contaminated" with Jewish brains...