Word: mindless
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...Knowing your usual penchant for drawing parallels between events and culture, I'm most surprised that your piece on "The Girl Gangs" of London [Oct. 16] did not point out the striking similarities of their mindless violence-for-kicks with that of Alex and his gang in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange...
...spite of his outrage at the war, though, Mailer couldn't help admiring the way the great Republican prime-time extravaganza was handled. The timing, the celebrities, Pat, and especially the Young Voters for the President, fascinated him. For him the YVP was as a mindless, well-scrubbed cheering section, in whose faces he could...
...Democrats have shot verbal harpoons at the huge subsidies. Senator William Proxmire has said that the program is "mindless" and financially "out of control." Though the nation's tax money doubtless could be put to better uses, the majority of legislators from both parties have lined up behind the maritime program. The maritime lobby is one of Washington's strongest, giving generous political contributions and speakers' fees to legislators; it has also contributed to President Nixon's campaign. Unions and management work hand in glove to promote new shipbuilding projects, since leaders of both know full...
...follow the news out of the Middle East were not overly surprised by Munich. We have watched, so often before, this mindless, subhuman killing of innocents-in their beds, in their markets, on their school buses...
...THESE WEAKNESSES are peripheral to its fundamental failing, its sexually offensive nature. Oui subscribes to the narrowest kind of sexual stereotyping. Men must be tough, unsympathetic, daring: women weak, mindless, and full-breasted...