Word: mindlessness
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Similarly, the method and intent of feature writing, like the profiles, have been altered by this year's staff. The articles on the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the Doty Report debates are typical of mindless scissors and paste summaries of news releases and CRIMSON articles which have so often strangled Yearbooks. Neither author has bothered to master (rather than repeat) the details of his subject and write an interpretive piece...
...event to be "experienced without condescension." In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured. For inspirational purposes, such hip artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol occasionally paint while listening to rock 'n' roll music. Explains Warhol: "It makes me mindless, and I paint better." After gallery openings in Manhattan, the black-tie gatherings often adjourn to a discotheque...
...this glut of activities isn't sufficient, those sport fans seeking truly mindless entertainment can attend the opening of Raynham Park, which kicks off the 1965 New England dog racing season...
Brainy but Mindless...
...many other campuses. Much painful and complicated soul searching is going on. If the Chief of the Harvard Psychiatric Service had sufficient command of contemporary philosophy, sufficient understanding of the Freudianism he popularizes so crudely, he might serve as a legitimate preceptor for this community. Instead he spouts mindless cliches, offers frightened and frightening prescriptions, and debases an issue which is far more profound and serious than the good doctor, I fear, will ever realize...