Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increasing opposition by conservationists and state government officials to heedless strip-mining and offshore oil drilling has also sharply limited the future exploitation of U.S. fuel reserves. Sums up S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy: "Environmental goals and energy demands are on a collision course...
...full of examining their feelings and describing their inner thoughts--I don't think such introspection gets you anywhere.") In the article, Eiseley discussed the glacial epoch in relation to man's fear of nature, described our current world situation as the depths of winter, and deplored the "heedless ones" who want "liberation without responsibility" (here Mrs. Emmett looked over the clipping at me, nodding, and winked). She finished reading the article in her strong, clear voice and got up to see me to the door. "I'm glad you could come," she said, kissing me goodbye. "I really like...
...carry out completely such a shift in public policy, and the change in popular psychology on which it must be based, could take decades, even generations. M.I.T. computers to the contrary, society probably has the time. But it must not squander that time in a heedless pursuit of the wrong kind of growth...
...monumental building construction infringing on Memorial Hall's quadrangle, yet Harvard's new sculptural acquisitions are almost invisible in snow-covered Radcliffe's courtyards and Sever squad. It is not only the snow that makes these sculptures so hard to see--they are scarce and often dwarfed between heedless architectural structures, the sculptor's concern for the environment is offended, if even recognized...
...personal drama out of political chaos. Expertly adapted from Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical novel, the story deals with two Jewish families in Ferrara in the late 1930s, when Fascism was cresting all over Italy. The Finzi-Continis are patricians who live in a spacious estate behind high walls, heedless and ever so slightly disdainful of the tide outside that will inexorably engulf them. The other family, never named, is aware of the political upheaval all about them. But they try only to accommodate their comfortable middle-class life to it, not escape...