Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leads one to realize that the question is by no means an abstraction. Under certain conditions, racial violence in the South (and North) will certainly occur. In some Southern towns, and in parts of Northern cities, those conditions are probably developing right now. Some people have been rash enough to predict that if the situation does not change within the next year the first white men will be killed, in self-defense, by Negroes specifically seeking to gain fuller civil rights...
...sentimentalizing death, but his poet's resistance was stronger still. Death, to him, was the enemy of experience, more shameful than saddening, and the dead were zeros that "love cannot touch." Having long treated patients as poems, Williams once said farewell with a poem that, in all his rash toughness, he might well have considered his own epitaph...
...with nary a swollen ankle or an extra pound of weight to trouble her. There is no question but that her gentle gestation will terminate in the totally painless birth of a perfect, silky-haired baby who, like Mother, will never be bothered by anything so indelicate as diaper rash or colic...
...stars, meaning "sold," marked all but seven of the 28 paintings and drawings hanging in Manhattan's Terry Dintenfass Gallery last week, but if the young artist who did them was impressed, he seemed determined not to show it. "Measles" was his word for the rash of red stars. When a visitor asked how so many drawings and paintings got sold before the exhibition was a day old, the artist said, "We were peddling them in the streets." Success has not spoiled Sidney Goodman of Philadelphia; it simply makes him uneasy, and hence a trifle flip...
...Trial. "The right perception of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude one another." This slyly smiling sentence, inserted by Franz Kafka in the final pages of The Trial, holds a subtle point at the throat of any man so rash as to interpret the most eerie and profound of all the fables written by the apocalyptic insurance clerk of Prague. Is The Trial a psychotic nightmare, the case history of a persecution complex, an allegory on the theme of justice, a prophetic vision of the totalitarian state, an analysis...