Word: mindlessness
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...insipid grin of degenerate pride in achievement on the face of the Cambodian soldier further illustrates the mindless futility of our involvement in Indochina...
...only revulsion over mindless bombing that has dampened the passion of the left. A pervasive fog of fatigue, fear and frustration has settled over the barricades. Radicals still insist that "repression" is everywhere, and as evidence they cite drug arrests, expulsions from schools and conspiracy trials. The arrest of the Berrigan brothers, says Harvard Crimson Staffer David Landau, looms as the newest example "of what the Government is prepared to do to kill the antiwar movement...
That produces losses to Vermont and unhappy bus rides back from Providence, but I don't think beating Brown is worth mindless fanaticism and recruiting trips into the Canadian woods. If it takes Cornell's hockey program to win a national championship, then the championship isn't worth winning...
...Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...
...Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...