Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Careless Defendant. At this year's Advocacy Institute ($35), Shapiro's 3,500 students first boned up on two tomes of theory, plus detailed, fictitious depositions. After Yale Professor Fleming James lectured on "reasonable standard of care," they watched courtroom maestros examine "Thomas Covington III," an alert lawyer-actor who insisted that he had taken every precaution before burning grass on his property. A sudden wind gust just happened to whip up the flames that incinerated Neighbor Harvey Williams' $75,000 house, stables and horses...
...play contains several obvious, though still dangerous, pitfalls. It was written 130 years ago for a theatre with habits and tastes unlike our own, and its humor can seem obscure and repetitive. The scenes are really tableaux, and a good deal of imaginary action takes place between them. A careless production, one that goes for the big laughs and lets the dialogue fend for itself, would thoroughly confuse everyone...
...skill. Meanwhile, both the drug industry and organized medicine, which had resources and skills, felt that they could shoulder the principal responsibility for policing drugs and drug dispensing and should be regulated as little as possible. But in both the industry and the profession there was a minority of careless, unethical operators from whom the public had to be guarded...
...careless play in the defensive zone killed the Crimson rally. Althouse, playing wing, stole the puck in the Harvard zone and scored unassisted at 9:47. It was his second goal, and it proved to be the winning...
...looks back with frank nostalgia to the "proud tower" which had been destroyed. "Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later time, with more self-reliance, more confidence, more hope; greater magnificence, extravagance and elegance; more careless ease, more gaiety, more pleasure in each other's company and conversation, more injustice and hypocrisy, more misery and want, more sentiment including false sentiment, less sufferance of mediocrity, more dignity in work, more delight in nature, more zest...