Word: meaninglessness
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...stars" fail through conflicts of acting, this one lacks anything which might approach unity of direction. The superb cast of directors, headed by Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount's ace, leaves the minds of their audience much the same feeling as that created by the architecture of Adams House: a meaningless hodge-podge of more or less attractive pieces...
...state of learning in Harvard Law School was gently tut-tutted last week in Chicago, during the annual convention of the Association of American Law Schools. Reported Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr.: "At present any allusion to science, literature or history is sure to be meaningless to at least half the college graduates in the room. An occasional call for a show of hands has revealed only a scattered few who had read Pickwick Papers. And the use of the relatives of Romeo & Juliet to clarify (supposedly) a complicated pedigree case led to an overheard conversation between two students...
MUSIC in its purity is so abstract an art that criticism of it either has been made up of meaningless superlatives and half understood psychological terms, or has become so technical that it is of little use to the layman; and often, as in the comments on symphony programs, it has become a hopeless hodge-podge of the two. With a few exceptions, critics have lacked a training broad enough to comprehend the rational place of music among the other arts and its true relation to life. In fact, musical criticism, especially in the last few years, has been emotional...
...States (see map p. 13). The Hearst poll, smaller but in the past even more accurate, confirmed this drift against President Hoover, gave him 181 electoral votes to 350 for his opponent. G. O. Partisans turned savagely on their erstwhile weathervane, insisted the Digest's returns were unreliable, meaningless. Their strongest claim was that the ballots had been cast before the Republican campaign really began, that since then a surge to Hoover unreflected in the totals was taking place. Chairman Sanders in his effort to belittle the Digest's forecast fell into factual error when he declared...
...campaign talk has been that an upturn in business and prices would re-elect President Hoover. Last week, stock values on the New York Ex change had increased $12,149,022,329 since June. Last week's break in cotton of $4 per bale was set down as politically meaningless because the G. O. P. this year did not expect to repeat its 1928 achievements in the Solid South. Business failures for the last week in August (435) were at a nine months' low. The Federal Reserve Board, issuing its most optimistic weekly report in two years, showed an increase...