Word: pointlessly
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When a mature dramatist of international distinction writes a feeble, pointless play, a feeling of sadness and embarrassment clings to the event. Is it, one asks, a temporary lapse, or is it evidence of declining powers? Whichever it is, Arthur Miller has come a cropper in The Creation of the World and Other Business...
...mature enough to cast aside surface defects and pay attention to the argument of the lectures. Still, it cannot be called maturity to study a sterile overspecialized subject; that should better be called docility. Students should avoid these subjects systematically, not seek to replace useless lectures about them with pointless discussions...
Many liberal educators agree that grades are a bad way to measure student achievement. Says Education Professor Sidney B. Simon of the University of Massachusetts: "The grading system is the most destructive, demeaning and pointless thing in American education. It allows certain administrative conveniences-permitting assistant principals to decide who goes on probation and who can take an honors course-but it doesn't help learning...
...deplore the senseless shootings at Southern, but more, we deplore the continuation of the educational system that has bred the chronic and pointless violence which has visited Orangeburg, Jackson State and now Southern...
...story possibilities are quashed by an inane and deadening parade of spiritless symbols and visual shortcuts. Perhaps the film was meant to be funny. It could be an excellent parody of Eric Rohmer's more pointless works, La Collectionneuse and Claire's Knee...