Word: useless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...strategy is called for. Any further riots will be met with swift massive law enforcement, so riots as a possible tool certainly quickly outlived their usefulness. I think the tactic of violence or at least the expression of violent intent was dramatically shown to be totally inadequate and useless as dramatized in the case of the Panthers more recently...
...takes on the appearance of romantic oversimplification. Work, like everything else-socialism, democracy, love-was to Chekhov only a preconceived notion which could not renew life by itself, and which, if clung to stupidly as a panacea (no matter how elaborated), would seize the spirit, plunge it into a useless, deadening cycle of paroxysm and exhaustion, ending in the destruction of the person rather than the renovation of society. Bernard Shaw took Ania from The Cherry Orchard, renamed her Ellic Dunn, placed her in a crazy house of supine elegance and overheated, strangling dreams, and showed that Heartbreak House...
...stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants-the YAWFs, the Progressive Labor S.D.S. wing and others-fought their way onto the platform and kept off speakers they did not approve of. If that was the future, it, too, would be a joyless prize...
...plastic socket would require no lubrication. But what plastic? He tried Teflon, only to have it break loose and damage nearby bone. "One day," he says, "a salesman turned up with a sample of high-density polyethylene. I sent him away, telling him that we knew that polyethylene was useless. I hadn't heard of high-density polyethylene, but luckily my lab technician had, and behind my back he told the salesman to leave a sample. We tested its wearing properties, and the results were fantastic...
...unity of theory and practice-that you only believe what you are doing. You do not believe that the genocide in Vietnam should be ended unless you are working for that end. If you are teaching Renaissance poetry instead, then you may still believe, in some abstract and useless sense, that the war should end. In any case, you believe that teaching Renaissance poetry is more important than ending...