Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acting like this just to avoid company would be absurd. And cavers do have other reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...
...first act that is enhanced by the lengthy argument between Sade and Marat. This is fairly tedious, since the play doesn't want to give ideas, but only imitations of ideas, swathed in anger and spectacle. The debate is something a callous director could cut down, a careless director here takes seriously and a really alert one would accelerate; it should go by like a shot. And the pacing falls off sometimes, perhaps by accident -- the murder itself should his us like an orgasm, but doesn...
While there could be no excuse for such wanton rampaging, hardly anyone denies that the students have much to be angry about. Facilities are limited and crowded. Underpaid professors are frequently careless and incompetent. Academic standards are often pitifully low. Worst of all, because of India's struggling economy, students despair of getting decent jobs once they graduate. It is the more urgent problem of trying to build the economy that prevents the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from building new educational facilities. Mrs. Gandhi has taken a conciliatory attitude toward the students-which many Indians feel will...
...need not prove that he was reckless, only that he was careless...
...Careless Reporting. For all his complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally...