Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
Throughout his long career, Cheever kept an elegant account of both the price and value of experience: the piper must be paid, but the music is wonderful. His vision was moral and sensuous at the same time. His heedless libertines do not appreciate what they are enjoying, nor do his cynics know what they are missing. "Oh, what can you do with a man like that?" asks the narrator of one of his stories. "How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond...
...whose apparently congenital bad temper is not improved by the fact that his marriage has just been sundered. The third (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is a teacher in a reformatory, a secular saint whose politics consists mainly of setting a good, if humble and anonymous, example for a world that is heedless of his like...
...speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have to." Two young couples in the Birmingham suburbs were heedless...
Another Southern man of the people, Louisiana's Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold...