Word: mindlessness
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...outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable." Grendel soon casts off this grim, comforting illusion. Thereafter John Gardner's own fable, by turns grisly, comic and curiously touching, follows Grendel's twelve-yearlong crusade against the Danes-to force them into seeing "the mindless, mechanical brutishness of things...
...some agile plot twists, and an abundance of savage little insights into affluent California adolescents. Pretty Maids All in a Row ought to have been a lot better, but Vadim's limited success at least suggests that humor is a lot more helpful in dealing with youth than mindless sentimentality...
...insist, I'll first provide the usual collection of mindless quotables, the film-reviewer's homage to the system that supports...
...left Sanders I realized that though I was not the object of the mindless chanting of the disrupters. I suffered nonetheless from its violence. When the speakers' right to speak was crushed so was my right to hear them. I asked myself where I might find redress; I who have no organized mob to support me and no ready means to defend my rights with force. When unchecked power raises its fist to smash my liberties, must I despair...
...enough to purge the disrupters. And for University administrators to spend the coming weeks screening motion picture film in an effort to establish identities and actions is equally self-destructive. Disciplinary procedures become mindless machinery when they operate in a morally bankrupt environment. The primary need of the moment is not retribution but moral leadership and development of a University-wide consensus so that the principle of free speech will not be violated in the future. Pusey, over the past two years, has consistently failed to provide such leadership. It is to be hoped that Derek Bok, even before...