Word: fecklessly
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Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
...condone Waugh's great faults. He was anti- Semitic and terminally rude, even to close friends. He was a remote, absentee father who viewed his offspring with suspicion and alarm. "My children weary me," he once confided to his diary. "I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless." Perhaps in reaction to his frugal middle-class upbringing, he became an aristocrat-toadying snob who tended to confuse proper breeding with moral worth...
...demands that what few pupils he takes study only his curriculum. There is Henry, rich, seductive, depraved; Francis, a homosexual with a very convenient house in the nearby hills; Athena-like Camilla and her twin Charles. Charles drinks too much, but then they all do, including Bunny, the feckless, unreliable...
...BOTTOM LINE: A feckless society couple who deserved each other are the subjects of a disappointing biography...
This crime, like those before it, was ringingly denounced by politicians, law-enforcement officials, trade unions and the media. But few doubted the Mafia would strike again at will, without fear of retaliation. The criminals' arrogance is fed by the feckless response that greets each new barbarism. Protesting Borsellino's death, unions staged a nationwide 10-min. work stoppage. Jailed Mafia bosses were clapped into a remote island prison, denied visitors and the use of phones from which they run their businesses. At the Mass for Borsellino's bodyguards, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Prime Minister Amato...