Word: mindlessness
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...think to make this information public? Did no one think? All I wanted was to become a more rounded individual--and the endless, mindless, senseless, hopeless morass of Harvard Bureaucracy defeated me utterly...
...WRITTEN about the unspeakable and the unthinkable. His first book, The Ungodly, was an epic treatment of the Donner party, those galloping gourmets who survived the Rocky Mountain winter of 1847 by eating their dead. The Making of the Atomic Bomb traced the thin line between creative genius and mindless annihilation...
...responsibility to protect the common good to produce an almost total preoccupation with the bottom line. The networks are struggling to survive. And like most businesses in that situation, they make only what they feel the public will buy. And that, the statistics seem to indicate, is mindless, heartless, escapist fare. If we are dissatisfied with the moral content of what we are invited to watch, I think we should begin by examining our own consciences. When we tune in, are we ready to plunge into reality, so as to extract its meaning, or are we hoping to escape into...
...adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written by a powerful theater critic: his ex-wife.) The show is mindless but inoffensive, and a good deal easier to take than Melrose Place. At least no one tries to drown his problems in the pool...
...Brigade run riot in the unsuspecting Italian city of Turin, "I realized that I was no longer surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants; I was now surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants in a frenzy." But even black humor bows out as Buford's tale of unrelenting, mindless violence and moronic patriotism unfolds, and the "lad culture" with its bloated code of maleness centered on the Saturday rite of soccer is revealed in all its crude nihilism...