Word: mindlessness
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Only after our teachers begin to expect reasonable amounts of work from us will passion replace indifference, mindful reflection replace mindless memorization and creative expression replace mechanical regurgitation. Then, perhaps, the beginning of the semester will no longer be a time for fear and trepidation but for eager anticipation...
...responsibility for maintaining Let's Go's factual accuracy, expanding its coverage in the Third World and in general finding those places where the "well-heeled" people don't go falls to r-dubs, for whom eight hours of mindless toil every day for seven straight weeks adds up to "a wonderful experience...
...Much of the time people aren't thinking and are mindless," she says...
...World War I begins. Its mindless slaughter heightens and validates the modernist vision. Picasso, watching the military vehicles rumble through Paris, sees in their camouflage painting a kind of Cubism, therefore a kind of modernist triumph. That same year James Joyce begins Ulysses, overturning our traditional expectations for action, plot, drama and the direct impact of one character on another in the novel. "Like Proust," Edmund Wilson writes, "he is symphonic rather than narrative...musical rather than dramatic...
...THREE KINGS Calculated brutality and mindless consumerism exist side by uneasy side as American soldiers search for gold and find postmodern anarchy in the Gulf War's aftermath. Writer-director David O. Russell's electrifying trip down the rabbit hole is bruising, amusing, scary, yet finally very moving...