Word: mindlessness
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...soon as you start to talk about Vietnam, you begin to have doubts about your government." Michael S. Ansara, an executive of the national chapter of SDS at Harvard, however, attributed the growth of SDS to the new image of the Left at Harvard. "The view of the mindless radical has gone out. We think before we act," he says...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...
...fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...
Nevertheless, it sells, chiefly to housewives who get tired of watching mindless nonsense on daytime television. Thus, while such books get little critical attention, they occasionaliy make the bestseller lists. The two latest arrivals...
...Directory survives," said a White House aide, "the government survives." The phrase was oddly evocative of 18th century Paris. And so, with precious little else in common with the French Revolution, were the mindless mob scenes in Saigon last week. More remarkable was the Administration's notably cool assessment of a perilous situation that had seemingly been plotted to provoke an intemperate reaction from Washington...