Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stillborn Parables. Neil Young, on all the evidence, did not think much about any of this. Though the film has a reckless naivete that is intermittently charming, it is mostly an indulgence...
While on one hand it would be pragmatic to obtain a national consensus to stop toppling governments, on the other hand it would be quite reckless to throw into the package a halt in legitimate intelligence gathering. It is still important to track terrorist groups and foreign military movements. One must have a very unrealistic picture of the world to deny this...
...activities of the CIA in domestic spying and government toppling are profoundly disturbing. The CIA must be kept under wider review by both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government. However, it would prove to be a very reckless course to insist on a package deal which would end all intelligence operations. Michael Segal...
...basic reason was the absence of any fresh movement toward a peace settlement, and the reluctance of the principals to negotiate boldly toward achieving that end. The symptoms were a spate of new incidents of border righting between the Israelis and the fedayeen and a disturbing rise in the reckless rhetoric...
Ideological Purity. Sinologists believe that Mao sympathizes with at least some of the radicals' arguments-after all, it was Mao who plunged China into the reckless adventure of the Cultural Revolution with the call "Bombard the party headquarters!" But Mao also clearly approved such departures from ideological purity as Chou's openness toward Japan and the West. Indeed, Sino-American relations, though cautious on cultural exchanges, have blossomed in the area of trade; the U.S. is now China's second-largest trading partner, after Japan. (By contrast, the Soviet Union inspires only fear in China -enough...