Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant interests, he has shattered many a lance. Yet his supply of new ones seems endless...
...need not prove that he was reckless, only that he was careless...
...proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...result, the Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that a person can be tried for the same crime in both federal and state courts (Bartkus v. Illinois). As another, Indiana's top court last year rejected the federal standard, upholding Ronald R. Cichos' retrial and conviction for reckless homicide while tossing out his claim of double jeopardy. If Cichos wins his Supreme Court appeal, all American courts will have to use the federal double-jeopardy rule, while federal and state agents will have to decide who will prosecute when both have jurisdiction...
...outright cacaphony of the sort you get in "Tombaton" (Opus 6), or in "It's Allright, Ma" (Opus 5). To some extent this is just the problem of Blonde on Blonde is easy not to listen to, even played loud. Few lyrics are as said imposing as these reckless un-set texts...