Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly runs any more. Karl has been stopped by police 400 times, and duped by two different firms that promised to build a prototype of his car but tried to steal his patent instead. Karl is out $30,000. He looks older than his 54 years and has grown careless about his appearance. He trembles. But a man who will spend three years in his dining room playing with pieces of glass does not give up easily. "I really think this is it, don't you?" he says. "I mean, it's been ten years...
Walzer is sometimes careless with that peculiar vocabulary of political philosophy-the "careful words." as John Schaar calls them, which one must ponder deeply. It would help, for instance, to distinguish "obligations." the subject of the book, from "patriotism" or "loyalties" which also influence and spring from moral choices. These are not the same things. They operate at different but overlapping levels of awareness. Loyalty seems a more comprehensive and powerful motive force than "obligation." a word which implies formal duties and rational ranking of commitments. How do these fit into Walzer's hierarchy? A glossary or an expository chapter...
...them the kind of contempt that can issue only from someone who has known revolution firsthand. Tyrmand, of course, takes words with a deadly seriousness because he knows that in a totalitarian state they can lead to death when used too freely. In America, revolutionary chatter seems both careless and frivolous...
...roles are long and unsurpassable difficult. Miss Yakutis has a good deal of breath and body control but was the most mechanical and aloof I have ever seen her. Snyder was repetitive in gesture and volume, and is in fact, exceedingly careless in his part. I doubt that he comprehends the nature of Antony's shame in the great scene III, XI. for he was clamorous and brutal. This is the still moment of shame. The tone should be lyrical self-examination, during the exhaustion of shame through to the reassertion of resolve. It is the tone of Achilles...
...Crimson should have little trouble elsewhere on the singles ladder, but it may get careless in the doubles. Due to financial limitations, Harvard can not bring any substitutes to play doubles matches, and the first six will be more interested in resting for the Army matches than playing doubles against Cornell...