Word: mindlessness
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...members freely discussed the aerospace vote with newsmen waiting in the lobby last week, P.R. Man Herbert Wurth was nonetheless forbidden by the board's new executive director, Robert Tiernan, to write a press release about it until the rejection had been framed in legalese. Furious at such mindless rules, Wurth quit...
...when I went to hear what the band (a term used with the greatest affection) had to say this time around, I came away quite disappointed. I was particularly saddened by the degree to which the extraordinarily creative can become alienated from a mindless following. Pete Seeger said it with just a bit more patience. (One wonders exactly how Wagner might have looked at Nietzsche when it was all over...
Overnight, families that had lived as friendly neighbors for decades in British India became mindless enemies in Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. Within nine months after partition, some 16 million refugees had fled crazed mobs in both countries. Perhaps 600,000 were slaughtered. "If they were children," wrote British Historian Leonard Mosley, describing the carnage, "they were picked up by their feet and their heads smashed against the wall. If they were girls they were raped and their breasts were chopped off. And if they were pregnant, they were disemboweled...
...system, and he has made it his business to expose all the fears and contradictions that lie underneath the complacent enjoyment of material wealth. His method of exposure is almost always the same: the introduction of some moral dilemma into the lives of his characters, which interrupts their mindless pursuit of Fat City and reveals the bankruptcy of their natures...
...Lace your own water with lithium! I live in Chicago, and I need every bit of energy and alertness that I can muster to direct in constructive and positive endeavors and to recognize and protest any such mindless suggestions as yours...