Word: mindlessness
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...decades later, with a change in architectural belief. Obsessed with the idea that everything in G and S has to be funny, they have transformed a soprano showpiece into a mindless burlesque. Barbara Menaker, as Mabel, goes along with the gag, and gives an adequate but useless performance...
...rise of student and intellectual radicalism as a major phenomenon of the second half of the '60's." Prevailing orthodoxy, to be sure, dutifully assures us that "an affluent, consumer-oriented capitalist society has bred contented cows," that one dimensional technological society has reduced all its citizens to mindless automata. But even while Professor Lipset was solemnly proclaiming the end of an ideological era in which "fundamental political problems of the industrial revolution have been solved.... This very triumph of the democratic social revolution in the West ends domestic politics for those intellectuals who must have ideologies or utopias...
...Lindsay, Marya Mannes, and the versatile Norman Mailer. All of them point out that the author is, indeed, a very witty political critic. All of American society comes under attack in this volume, from the President to plastics, from television to crime in the streets. The portraits of a mindless suburbia, of seething, terror-ridden cities, are fiendishly accurate, easily recognizable, when the author departs from her subject long enough to make them. All of these catalogues of horrors, written in the kind of verse Time magazine would use if it used verse, are curiously striking. Even their unconnected, staccato...
...after receiving news that his father is dying, we discover that he is actually the wayward son in a family of musical prodigies. The redneck is not a redneck after all, but an alienated misfit, unable to adjust to either the intensely intellectual world of his family or the mindless physical world of Middle America. Robert is that figure increasingly common to American films-a man without a country...
...Mindless Action. Critics with less sympathy attribute much of the present wave of bombings, kidnapings and cop-killings to an obsession with Che's emphasis on immediate, almost mindless action. Others note that it is difficult to determine whether Che is actually a moving force or merely a symbol of a mood. Nobel-prizewinning Biologist George Wald, a staunch pacifist who is one of Harvard's most popular teachers, maintains that for all its magic, Che's memory "is embalmed in a wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters...