Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski...
Depression-born, the New Deal, haunted by overproduction and "reckless" past expansion, could hardly be expected to put much stress on speeding up the growth of the economy as a whole. The New Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a bigger piece of a limited pie. It took up the cudgels for the "have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives...
...vexing and dangerous practical problems of the Middle East are also, especially for Britain and the U.S., problems of moral responsibility. The Arab-Israel quarrel, for instance, is directly traceable to reckless and selfish past U.S. and British deeds and omissions in that region. Responsibility for solutions must rest largely in an agreement between Britain and the U.S. on how to make Arabs and Israelis stop the fighting and begin the stabilization of the area. No doubt the forms of solution will require hard, technical, diplomatic work. But nothing will come of technical gimmicks in this or any other area...
...stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy the authority of the U.S. The case of South Carolina...
Conditioned Response. In Greensboro, N.C., a week after he got an eight-month suspended sentence for stealing ex-Mayor Benjamin Cone's Oldsmobile, Ardell Reece was picked up by police, charged with hit-and-run driving, reckless driving, driving without a permit, stealing and wrecking Superior Court Judge L. Richardson Preyer's Chrysler convertible...