Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sodom area still has its peculiar working hazards: curious camels often make it difficult for planes to land on its airstrip, and a helicopter stands by to pull careless workers out of the slimy and corroding salt water. But the area now makes a major contribution to Israel's economy, and Makleff intends to increase its output fourfold by 1966. "These are the elements that God gave us," he says, "and we intend to use them...
...call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly about his food or the hospital routine. And the dulling of his sensitivity may make him careless of toilet habits. Worst of all, this patient, with supposedly less crippling damage, lacks the strong motive to retrain himself that speechlessness provides...
...curious, if not at all reassuring, that of all the Administration's important officials concerned with aid, only the unfortunate Bowles has advocated consistently sound doctrine. He sees little point in giving substantial loans or grants to countries that are notoriously careless about their internal economic houses; at the same time, he wants a more liberal policy than the "showcase nation." Briefly, his theory is that aid funds can in themselves act in certain cases to spur economic reform and planning, and to train reformers and planners--the assumption behind the Alliance for Progress. He is a man of tougher...
...Will our children be freaks?" And their doubts and fears can easily degenerate into a sense of defeat, a feeling that the battle of life has already been lost for them by their elders. When that happens, they tend to cut corners; they are lax while studying for exams, careless while driving cars. "Taking chances," says Dr. Escalona, "is what many a teen-age boy and girl would like to do in any case." They seize upon the uncertainties of life as a ready-made excuse for doing what they always wanted...
...culture in history has been so child-centered as the Spock-marked society of contemporary America, few have been so careless of their children as that of medieval Europe. How Western man moved from then to now is the subject of this rich piece of French scholarship by Social Historian Philippe Aries...