Word: mindlessness
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...finds hippies under every bed. He accuses them of mindless sloganeering, but then goes on to scrawl his own slogans: "Negro jazz is masochistic"; "This is the generation that uses the word Love as a synonym for Hate...
...when it comes to out-Heroding Herod, nothing can match the great millimeter mania. It is not enough that cigarette ads, which seem to be one endless round of jingle-jangle whoop-de-do by a babbling brook or out there in Marlboro Country, are among the more mindless on TV.* Now they are engaged in a dreary interior dialogue. In reply to Chesterfield's joshing boast that its 101s are "a silly millimeter longer," Winston Super Kings scoff: "It's not how long you make it." Right, says Pall Mall 100s. What counts is whether you're "longer...
...Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes it questionable how clearly he saw things, at least in 1925. To Bulgakov, the proletarian state seemed vulgar, mindless and infuriating, but the book does not give a sense that he felt menaced by it. The growing shelf of Bulgakov's work begins to take the form of a literary puzzle, and a trustworthy biography would be a useful addition...
...barbershop and mindless...
...hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, to strangle its occupants...