Word: meaninglessness
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...common criticism that the Harvard Economics Department is too theoretical is, in itself, meaningless. College economics cannot start off on seasonal unemployment in Southern California. Its task is to breed rational economic thought, and for that it must be rooted in theory. A study of the economic doctrines of the past is essential to an understanding of the economic problems of the present...
...plea is not for military participation, but merely for realism. The term "short of war" is meaningless, for we have already committed acts of war. Our choice, therefore, is not between war or peace. It is between a lesser evil and a greater...
...find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night" and "Solitude," in which the writer of the leaflet professed to find a "softly vibrant sensuousness," reminded me of some third-rate movie-score hacking out a scene...
...cobalt-blue capsule, thrust it behind his back. A brunette young woman snatched the capsule, shook out a piece of paper, handed the paper to a blonde. The blonde attached the paper to a white card, passed the card to a male announcer at a microphone. The announcer spoke meaningless words (for practice) into the microphone, handed the card to a Boy Scout. The Boy Scout slipped it to another Boy Scout, and thus from hand to hand of four more Scouts to a blond, wispy young man at a photographic recording machine. With a dainty flourish, the blond young...
...Yosuke Matsuoka graduated from the University of Oregon Law School in 1900, has been a loyal, dues-paying member of the Oregon Alumni Association for 20 years. This week in a "report to my Alma Mater" in the alumni magazine, he wrote feelingly of Japanese aims in polite, meaningless platitudes...