Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy has gone through metamorphoses. He was the heedless Kennedy kid brother who left Harvard for two years after he got a friend to take a Spanish exam for him. When he ran for the Senate in 1962, Harvard Law School Professor Mark DeWolfe declared: "His academic career is mediocre. His professional career is virtually nonexistent. His candidacy is both preposterous and insulting." But he has become a skilled student of the Senate, and Jack once called him "the family's best politician...
...joblessness, of radical violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...root of this phenomenon were the dire warnings of ecologists that man's heedless outpouring of noxious wastes is overwhelming the biosphere's ability to cleanse itself. As the year began, the public's foreboding was bolstered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which devoted 40 symposia at its annual meeting to environmental dangers. Later in January, President Nixon stressed the subject in his State of the Union address, which he followed up with a February special message. Soon the press issued almost daily reports on assorted ecological disasters?oil spills, fish kills, nuclear radiation...
Bathtub Grass. Though marijuana law enforcement now costs California alone more than $72 million worth of police and court time each year, Kaplan notes that the busts have not decreased use of the drug. The law has little effect on the unstable and heedless users who are most likely to become serious marijuana abusers or go on to hard drugs. By lumping marijuana with hallucinogens, amphetamines, barbiturates and heroin, in fact, the law encourages young people to distrust warnings about those far more perilous substances. Pot prohibition gives sporadic users the stigma of criminal records and makes young people cynical...
...Kent State dead. Three of the dissenters came away with knife wounds. One confrontation at U.C.L.A. was often something of an absurdist frolic, with students advancing on and retreating from the police?the "blue meanies"?in a sort of Keystone Kops ballet. Police would chase kids frantically past heedless couples smooching on benches. When one shift of police went off duty, the students shouted: "Manatia, pigs!" A cop would smile and wave goodbye...