Word: mindlessness
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Strolling through the Yard between classes, the freshman is beset by bullhorns blaring names of "war criminals" and other "enemies of the people." Upon returning to his room, he finds an equally mindless communique from an Administration figure about some controversy that began back in 1968 and is not even fully understood by its protagonists...
...comparison, the YVPs were mindless hordes. While some expressed disappointment that they did not assume parts more closely tied to the work of the Convention--parts which seemed implicit in their invitations from the Republican National Committee--most accepted the cheerleader's role and were content to emulate the ways of their wealthy elders. Few could detail the platform or explain the intricacies of the Steiger Amendment...
...intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches of arid soil-makes it impossible to support the continued migration. Legislators, scientists and citizens are now openly concerned about the threat of "Californication"-the haphazard, mindless development that has already gobbled up most of Southern California. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton recently spent two weeks traveling throughout the West, taking the measure of Californication and the attempts being made to stop it. Her report...
Representative Richard Lamm: "We are beginning to overcome a whole heritage of mindless Chamber of Commerce promotionalism...
Four years ago when he was 30, William Irwin Thompson left his teaching post at MIT, dismayed at what he called the "mindless, liberal technocratic managerial vision" he found there. At York University in Toronto he became a professor of humanities and wrote At the Edge of History, a provocative little book greeted variously as "dazzling" and as "not so much an analysis of the decadence of our civilization as a symptom of its decline." Wrote one reviewer: "Thompson's Edge is to Charles Reich's The Greening of America what chess is to Chinese checkers...