Word: heedless
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Different critics mean different things by waste. The most obvious definitions are heedless opulence, which, as it were, drops too much from the table, and the readiness to discard the only slightly old. A secondary target is the artificial stimulation of the consumer to buy in vast quantities things he never wanted until he was told. Often such complaints sound highly plausible, particularly when reinforced by a wrecking ball hitting an old landmark or an infuriating commercial peddling a clearly needless "improvement" in some trivial product. Yet waste is not what it seems to be. The term implies a moral...
...husband (Peter Finch), she tries during a trip through Spain to stir the embers of eroticism by packing him off to bed with her best friend (Romy Schneider). One memorable night, as a storm rages outside, she sees Romy and Peter on a balcony in an alfresco embrace, heedless of wind, rain and lightning. Meanwhile, a murderer fleeing a crime of passion appears on an adjacent roof, and Melina decides to help him. Why? To that question there is a multiple-choice answer: 1) she is desperate for excitement, 2) she is romantic and immature, 3) she is a fanatic...
...pitiful it is that so-called psychiatrists and theologians who are presumably in the position of helping people should instead be responsible for leading them into deep delusion. The heedless advocacy of using LSD to obtain mystical insights and the equation of the condition of St. Theresa and an LSD flight are not only fallacious, they are irresponsible. LSD fosters no lasting attitudes of either humility or love. LSD leads to a perversion of consciousness, making spiritual progress effectively more difficult. As the Eastern mystic Avatar Meher Baba recently said: "Love will make one a better man than drugs...
...this sometimes heedless energy destroys monuments of the quiet past, the underlying impulse is the U.S.'s basic tradition: a feeling that no problem is insoluble, that no defeat is final, that there is no established order that cannot be questioned. In the words of Robert Frost, most traditional of U.S. poets, "We have ideas yet that we haven't tried...
...oversimple view of Washington under Kennedy, intramural shoptalk and crackling press conferences disappear, for the city is "transformed into a cultural capital." In fact, this is neither Kennedy's Washington nor Washington's Kennedy. It is a legend for export, smoothly put together, fiercely partisan and as heedless of history as a love letter written in sand...