Word: reckless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reckless Laughter. The men responsible for these two new books on Joyce do not share Connolly's disappointment. In the introduction to his portable Joyce (containing selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as well as Joyce's short stories, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern...
Said Lawyer Lamb: "It is unwise to specify these fabulous and reckless sums. They . . . may stir Congress to adopt restrictive legislation...
...statement contained on page 95 in the issue of TIME of Dec. 2, in which you characterize the Empire Plow Co. as "moribund," was evidently made by you in reckless disregard of the truth. Because of the wide circulation of your magazine it will have a seriously injurious and damaging effect upon the business of the Empire Plow Co., which is one of the oldest and best established agricultural implement concerns in America, with a worldwide distribution of its products. . . . The business of the Empire Plow Co. is over 100 years old ... has [long] enjoyed the highest confidence and reputation...
...just have to get used to the way Americans work and think. Wiser Americans note that Britain, in depression for a generation and drained by two wars, is acutely conscious that her margin of survival has shrunk past the danger point. The British anxiety over their dependence on the "reckless" U.S. may be exaggerated or dead wrong, but it is, in view of their own position, understandable...
...followers, Dadswell has his own sort of glamor. Readers who might be sold the Brooklyn Bridge can warm up to the man who confesses that he bought a $5,000 diamond for $25 from a mysterious Mexican, discovered it was a zircon "not worth a buck." He has the reckless savvy of the smart fellow who retires on his earnings (he did in 1926, 1938, 1945), and then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise...