Word: meaninglessness
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MADRID, Spain—The Fourth of the July has never evoked images of red, white and blue American pride in my mind, but instead a series of disastrous or meaningless celebrations. I recall the time 12 years ago when my best friend spent the whole celebration at Baltimore’s inner harbor crying because, she claimed, a firework had inexplicably fallen from the sky and hit her eye. I think of July 5, the night my parents usually took me to see fireworks during my childhood so that we could avoid the crowds. I remember my high school...
After splitting a meaningless final weekend, Harvard finished at 10-4, tied with the Tigers for second place behind the Quakers...
...that we developed in our room seemed to develop out of the fact that we were different. With the media constantly putting forth images of the gay male as over-sexualized and feminine to a fault, we had fun living a life where we could laugh heartily at the meaningless character of stereotypes. I would complain to Mike about a tough moment with a TF, and he would flick his wrist in my direction telling me that “Hon-nay, you are going to be fine.” Down in the dining hall Toby and I developed...
...announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged to follow the chronology of the season rather than of the century, a configuration that doesn't make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring training. There, sitting in the stands with the senior citizens in Sarasota, Fla., watching a trio of trainee pitchers share a joke, Angell confronts the hidden pain nursed by every bleacher bum: "We would never be part of that golden company on the field, which...
...that she is more nauseatingly competitive than many Harvard students—but, let’s be honest, when she arrives here next year she’ll find all too many people who have, like her, kicked, scratched and clawed their way to gain often petty and meaningless accolades on their way to the college of their choice...