Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only the press and the courts have been consistent instruments of justice in the deluge of scandals surrounding a reckless executive branch. The administration's attacks on the press are familiar enough; by sabotaging the judicial process, Nixon's White House and CIA men have resorted to tactics appropriate only to a police state. It is fortunate that justice for Ellsberg and Russo has been achieved. But until grand juries and Congress dredge up all the details of the executive's involvement in domestic espionage, the American public should continue to suspect Nixon of undermining the very meaning of liberty...
RIDING HIGH on the reckless waves of sheer spontaneity, the Beat Generation couldn't arrest its own self-destruction. But before their movement became the subject matter for ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...
...Reckless and wrong though such conduct was, Hoover never cooperated with the White House, as Acting Director Gray has, in feeding information involving a serious investigation to officials under suspicion...
...return to the era of "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the apex of House rule, is a reckless and ridiculous idea...
Nixon may be the first President to instinctively use Alvin Toffler's "roaring current of change." Events tumble over themselves in the reckless race of this society toward "future shock." Yesterday and its outrages are often obliterated by today and its triumphs...