Word: mindless
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There is a Czech tradition of satirizing mindless officialdom that goes back to Kafka's The Trial and Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk. But this is not Kundera's main theme, and there is no reason to think that his work would be wholly different if his country's absentee landlords were still the Habsburgs, not the Soviets...
...lusty voice who fairly dances about the stage is quite the "glorious young beast" Lord Summerhays takes her for. Alison Stanley, as the more independent and less romantically disposed Lina, also strikes a strong and appealing posture. The men are all competent, too--David Aston-Reese appropriately sincere and mindless as Johnny Tarleton, Patrick Young properly insufferable as pitiful little Bentley Summerhays, and Jonathan Frakes, quite the gentleman and quite not the gentleman as the moment demands, as the attractive visitor...
...that tries to hide the hardships so apparent in the lines of his face. He waits outside as his wife enters a factory for a job interview. Inside a doctor's office for a medical examination, she and another, younger, woman stand stripped and defenseless as they suffer the mindless prods of an unctuous company doctor. Her eyes fill with tears when the doctor notices the scars of childbirth on her stomach and notifies her that they want only unmarried women for the job. She rejoins her husband outside and the two walk back slowly in the direction from which...
...recent years, attacks on the press have taken on a new dimension and, particularly over Watergate, they have become mindless and reflexive. This is true not only of Richard Nixon's bedrock supporters but of many others-including, recently, Archibald Cox. The press should never expect to be loved or admired. But it has a right to be understood, and too many Americans do not seem to understand what the press is about and what part it must play in the American system. An estrangement between the press and large numbers of Americans is dangerous, not merely...
Condon has unraveled. The world's villainy simply does not work so simply. To pretend that it does is mindless mischief...