Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author and wife, Susan Tifft, a TIME associate editor, have induced virtually all the members of this tortured family to expose seemingly every intimate detail, as if in some ritual of confession and humiliation to make up for all the years of privilege. The reader is exposed to reckless drug use and irredeemable boozing, to a daughter's experiments in group sex and a now dead son's alleged attempt at an incestuous rape -- even to summaries of children's grade school report cards and prep school fraternizing. No fact, it appears, is too intrusive or too repetitive for Tifft...
...Kennedy is not a coherent picture but has a shattered or kaleidoscopic quality. Or perhaps, like many public figures, he has arranged his life in compartments, some sealed off from the others. Kennedy's repeated drunkenness over a period of many years -- he was continually arrested for extremely reckless driving while a student at the University of Virginia Law School -- has raised in many minds the possibility, or in some the certainty, that he is an alcoholic...
Cassone's statement comes as no surprise to those who have watched Edward Kennedy, a powerful and conscientious Senator, become ever more reckless about drinking and chasing women half his age. A long magazine profile last year documented several such occasions in uncontradicted detail. Rather than set an example for the third generation, the head of the family often looks to its members for companionship in his escapades...
...these characters act with such reckless abandon is only vaguely explained by Hart. Anna's childhood was marred by the suicide of a brother who could not live knowing that she would see other men. She tries to deal with her grief by having affairs with various men, among them Martyn and his father...
...shut them up. The insult now stands, neither to be obviated nor obliterated by the flag's forcible removal. Hopefully, those responsible will someday realize what they truly communicate. Regardless, if we can bring most other students to understand the communication, we may be victimized by fewer reckless and damaging assertions of "pride" and "rights" in the future. Ben Hansen '92 Helena Hansen...