Word: heedless
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...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...
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...