Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pros are now planning as if it were already 1972, even to the point of discussing how to penetrate such important voting blocs as blacks and ethnic groups. All tacitly accept the premise that unless Viet Nam and the economy dissolve into nonissues, any other political planning is largely pointless...
...What can I say? I read it with such deep regret. The author's attitude must surely represent a Harvard equivalent of all the "Old Yale" chauvinisms which now seem so distasteful to most of us. And it was so very petty. A personal attach against Mr. Brewster. A pointless and absurd attempt to characterize the Yale faculty's intellectual contributions in terms of "Love Story" and Mr. Reich's recent tract, "The Greening of America" In short, a published ego trip where. in Mr. Kinsley indulges his vendetta against Yale in a manner which does not flatter the CRIMSON...
...like a cocktail-table art book, Duncan's gloom-shrouded pictures of American fighting men are packed more with fatigue than fight. There are no heroic actions; men shave, take muddy baths, clean up after shellbursts, write letters, stare vacantly at absolutely nothing while waiting for the next pointless action. The photographs have the stink of death, the feel of futility and, on any cocktail table, far surpass alcohol as a depressant...
Plotless and perhaps even pointless, Gerald Arpino's Trinity nonetheless represents a throbbing fusion of classic dance with the sound of now. It perfectly epitomizes the jaunty style and passionate, youthful temperament of the New York City Center's Joffrey Ballet...
...anything could make King Charles look good, it is the second production, Village Wooing -an unimaginative, and rather pointless tale about a thoroughly boring shop-girl's efforts to snare a pompous, Oxford-educated guidebook writer. In the end she succeeds, but no one, including Shaw, really cares. The play is just a vehicle for him to get in a few anti-American one liners, and express his male chauvinism more thoroughly than in his other plays...