Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. In this sad but sparkling French musical, Director Jacques Demy heaves a sigh for every sweet young thing who ever traded her first careless rapture for a bit of tangible security...
...Italians are not "always violent, usually passionate, and rarely predictable." We do become so, however, when we hear such careless generalities...
...forthcoming conference, said the President, "will not be restricted to federal action," but will "look for ways to help and encourage state and local government, institutions and private citizens in their own efforts . . . We have not chosen to have an ugly America. We have been careless, and often neglectful. But now that the danger is clear and the hour is late, this people can place itself in the path of a tide of blight which is often irreversible and always destructive...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. A shopgirl submits her first careless rapture to sober second thoughts in French Director Jacques Demy's sadly cynical fable, entirely set to music and done up in candy-box decor...
...retire in 1960. His first original poems were sketches and dramatic monologues of working-class New Yorkers just as the Depression began, and though his vision has become more complex, he has continued to be characteristically a poet of 20th century urban alienation, of "the straight, the narrow city, careless goddess" and "the civilized barbarians of the street," where even the oldest inhabitants must make the odd, damning admission, "Yes, I live here: I'm a stranger here myself...