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...drug taking. Brought up in the East in a middle-class suburban family, he was sent to a private school in Colorado because his parents hoped the experience would buck up his sagging attitudes and grades. He obviously knows some of the perils inherent in drugs, but is alarmingly heedless of others, notably LSD, which can be extremely dangerous. He graduated last June in good academic standing with a B average. When he turned on for the first time...
...Shaw had in mind for the job was himself. In Back to Methuselah, his five-play cycle completed in 1921, he tried to settle once and for all the meaning of creation ac cording to the Shavian doctrine of creative evolution. Written when he was 65 and for once heedless of commercial practicalities, the drama is frankly intended as his philosophical summa. Unfortunately, as a new London production by Britain's National Theater makes clear, it is a summa that is not quite the equal of its parts...
...chuffs," the heedless visitor says...
...bash private citizens showed great restraint. Not only did they restrain themselves from hitting citizens, they also restrained themselves from restraining the policemen who hit the citizens." But William Campbell, chief judge of the U.S. district court in Chicago, suggested that Walker's staff had worked hastily, heedless of an investigation by a grand jury that he had appointed. The grand jury's report is expected in January. That, said Campbell, "will be the one correct, definitive, objective story." The Chicago Tribune charged that the Walker report had been "substantially rewritten" by the Justice Department under the direction...
...should know. Back in the mid-1950s, about the time when his The Organization Man was published, Whyte watched with horrified wonder as his home county in Pennsylvania's lovely Brandywine Valley was ruined by heedless real estate development. He decided he should learn more about land use and conservation. He has since be come an expert on the subject. He helped to draft conservation programs for Connecticut, California and New York, also served on President Johnson's task force on natural beauty...