Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM the special viewpoint of portrait painters, which might be defined as hungry-eyed, U.S. Presidents in general have shown one serious weakness: they dislike extended portrait sittings. And by the same token artists are apt to strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter...
...Heedless of Communist demands that still more "reactionaries" be thrown into already crowded jails, Kassem chose the eve of the Moslem Id al-Adha holiday to give amnesty to hundreds of political exiles and prisoners arrested after last year's revolt. "This will provide an opportunity for all citizens to live in an atmosphere free from feuds and grudges," declared Kassem...
...then the author has left his chore behind him. His interest is that of the scholar, advancing but not selling ideas and thoughts. He is as heedless of praise as censure, has no idea how many readers attend him, and does not care: "To worry about the size of your audience is like taking your blood pressure every...
...fuller and more vivid story than any of these is revealed with the publication of The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh (New York Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate account of a painter's agonies, slow development and indomitable courage was ever set down...
...down to the pawnshop with his wife's jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year and a half of Sunday shooting, he persuaded...