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In 1912 Dunlap ran for the Des Moines school board. Her community involvement earned Dunlap the support of local women’s clubs who endorsed her candidacy and distributed her campaign advertisements in various local establishments. Dunlap won the election as the first woman to ever serve on the board. After three years of serving, Dunlap reported it was “the most unpleasant and most futile task” she had managed.
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Hastings wrote that the bombing came to be seen by many as "one of the most futile air attacks of the war" and Beevor called the attack a "disaster". Reynolds judged the results of the bombing as "pathetic" and D'Este wrote that the bombing hindered the Allied push into the city.Reynolds (2001), p. 153 Air Commodore E. J. Kingston-McCloughry and Solly Zuckerman conducted a survey and concluded that no targets of military value had been attacked, nor were there any gun positions, tanks or German dead in the target zone.
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Ritscher's self-immolation went unremarked by the media for nearly a week.War Protestor's Public Suicide in Chicago Went Unnoticed by Media It was condemned by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper, who thought that his suicide was a pointless act. "With all great respect, if he thought setting himself on fire and ending his life in Chicago would change anyone's mind about the war in Iraq, his last gesture on this planet was his saddest and his most futile.""Act by 'martyr' to protest war in Iraq a futile gesture", Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times, published November 9, 2006, accessed November 9, 2006.
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When early works were banned by Soviet censors, Pärt entered the first of several periods of contemplative silence, during which he studied choral music from the 14th to 16th centuries. In this context, Pärt's biographer, Paul Hillier, observed that "he had reached a position of complete despair in which the composition of music appeared to be the most futile of gestures, and he lacked the musical faith and willpower to write even a single note."P. Hillier, Arvo Pärt, 1997, p. 64. The spirit of early European Polyphony informed the composition of Pärt's transitional Third Symphony (1971); thereafter he immersed himself in early music, reinvestigating the roots of Western music.
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Some scholars however have dismissed the essay as the work of a Pseudo-Plutarch, "full of the most futile accusations of every kind",William Smith, A New Classical Dictionary, Harper and Brothers (1851) page 366 digitalized version in which the author merely establishes his own malignity,A. D.Godley, Herodotus, Loeb Classical Library (1920), page xiv digitalized version and whose "calumnious fictions" were inspired by wounded Theban patriotism (Thebes is treated unflatteringly in The Histories).George Rawlinson, The History of Herodotus Vol. I, D. Appleton and Co. (1859), pages 13–14 digitalized version According to another Plutarch scholar, R. H. Barrow, Herodotus' real failing in Plutarch's eyes was to criticize the city-states that saved Greece from Persia.
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