Word: mindlessness
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...Vienna State Opera. They decide among themselves which members are to get together in their so-called spare time to give ten pairs of concerts as the Vienna Philharmonic, and which will make up the opera orchestra on which nights. This kind of shifting personnel might seem like a mindless way to run an orchestra, but the saving grace in Vienna is the philosophy that the Philharmonic way of life is larger than life itself...
...saved the city from massive hurt. Still, there was little peace in the nation's cities. From Providence, R.I., to Portland, Ore., communities large and small heard the sniper's staccato song, smelled the fire bomber's success, watched menacing crowds on the brink of becoming mindless mobs. The only consolation was that, compared with the agony of Newark and Detroit, last week's racial convulsions were more of a threat than a storm...
Anyone, including my fellow liberals, who now attempts to justify riots, sniping, looting and other viciously criminal acts must henceforth bear a part of the responsibility for such mindless, sickening and self-defeating violence...
...appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia in the Festival's 1957 production...
...policy which relies on negotiation is a policy that is at least partly at the mercy of others. We must also have a course of action which is within the scope of our own authority. We must invite negotiations. We must have a better policy than mindless escalation should negotiations prove not to be possible...