Word: mindlessness
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...Near the end of his speech. Nixon said, "We live in an age of anarchy both abroad and at home." Referring to "mindless attacks on all the great institutions [of] free civilizations," Nixon said. "Even here in the United States great universities are being systematically destroyed...
...white trauma in Detroit goes back to the devastating 1967 black riot, in which 43 people died. It is worsened by inadequate police, inefficient courts, poor schools, a $60 million city deficit and a mindless urban-renewal program that has razed blocks of ghetto homes without replacing them. It is compounded by lagging auto sales that slash black jobs, the prejudice of many white Detroiters who came originally from the South-and a massive failure of most of the city's leadership...
...people to whom, they say, they would give power. There is no doubt that determined terrorists can blow up property, people and a community's equilibrium. But in a nation where the overwhelming majority favor either the status quo or orderly reform in the liberal tradition, mindless acts of violence by a self-appointed revolutionary elite only harden resistance to legitimate, necessary change. Says New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The use of explosives to tear down the system is self-defeating. It's cowardly. No democratic system can live that way. Society cannot permit...
...consideration to Harlem sentiments and only a slightly more complete account of racism within the university. The Columbia trustees are major actors before the actual conflict, then are quickly forgotten as the police move in for the bust and Kahn does his battlefield reporting. Conservative students became caricatured as mindless jocks, and moderate students are ignored...
...were as exaggerated and snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters, and its bloody ending reminiscent of the Emperor Nero's desire to attend his own funeral. Today Peter has evolved an elaborate ambiguity to justify its action-comic wanderers, Wyatt and Billy, and the mindless violence of their redneck antagonists. "Dennis Hopper and I represent a complete misunderstanding of what freedom's all about," he claims. "Both concepts are untenable, whether it's scoring and wanting to retire to Florida and ride around on your chopper, or whether it's just making money...