Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes her way heedless, decorating her arboreal center in bright lights of soft colors, draping venerable trees with blues and greens. She even puts some change in the Salvation Army pot as she trundles back from Jordan's or Bonwit's. You may feel peculiarly "out" as you watch her, for holidays are not times for strangers. But she is not to be missed--none of the magic of New York, mind you, or even the plasticity of Los Angeles, but still something quite remarkable in her own way. How long can it last, you ask yourself? How long before...
...pawns of all these groups were the students, who poured into the streets denouncing dictatorship and demanding democracy, heedless of the fact that Viet Nam is in the midst of a bitter war, and that even history's most advanced countries have usually found it necessary to suspend democracy in wartime. Furthermore, many students feared that Khanh, with complete power, might end their traditional draft exemptions. Communist agents were plainly instigating and exploiting the situation. Some of the mobs moved in military formations, signaling one another by blowing whistles and beating drums...
...blown-tomorrow look, as if it were a city made of credit cards. But much of it has grace and substance. From nations to corporations, everybody is there to hawk and hornblow. All the crammed buildings are engaged in a mad struggle for attention. And somehow, in its jostling, heedless, undisciplined energy, it makes a person happy to be alive in the 20th century...
...even cheeky George Wallace might have expected, there were many Wisconsinites who were anything but happy to have him around. The Milwaukee Journal got off some potshots at him before he arrived, and three of the state's Catholic newspapers carried withering blasts. Heedless of all that, Wallace landed in Milwaukee to be greeted by members of several ragtag organizations, among them the Liberty Amendment Committee, dedicated to income tax repeal, and the Christian Freedom Fighters, who want to "put more Christ into politics...
...high tragedy, but Fowles has made it so. Clegg is the perfect embodiment of modern evil: dull, implacable, without compassion because he is always rationalizing his cruelty. The evil he does is all the more agonizing because his victim is so engagingly brimful of life; and Clegg is so heedless of individual life that before the novel ends he is already mulling over the choice of another victim...