Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III's governors; and yet the Governor's Council remains, obstructing the chief executive, duplicating other posts and clogging bureaucratic channels. The counties, too, stayed on unchanged after the Revolution, and only inertia perpetuates their costly and relatively useless existence. Yet not since 1917 has a Constitutional Convention studied these antiques thoroughly...
...guess what they expected beyond the easy, frothy flow of cliches that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly in their conferences at Arden House), they are useless as an aggregate of truth-seekers. The committee that Henry Wriston has chaired for the last year had no such purpose; it was a committee on goals that had the distasteful task of operating completely without them...
...United States decision to comply with the British West Indies request to withdraw from the five naval bases within their territory should please everyone by its unimperialistic character. And, in itself, the withdrawal is laudable. But it is also insignificant these bases are almost totally useless, large portions are rented out to local peasants, and the only one which is really practical--it tracks missiles launched in Florida--will continue in this function on a more limited scale. The withdrawal is embarrassing because of its blatant omission why not Guantanamo...
...Arthur Koestler's new book, The Lotus and the Robot: His main conclusion-that it is useless to look to Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance-runs counter to fashionable Western intellectual longings. See RELIGION, Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis...
...rips this statement apart: can the Governor devise better challenges that the gang-leader? are these mysterious energies undifferentiated? where can a young man now find a greater 'togetherness' than in the strict conformity of the gang? The official practice, Goodman charges, is to write these boys off as useless and try to cajole or baffle them into harmlessness...