Word: recklessness
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What is the solution next time? Halberstam is a bold, even reckless generalizer. He has not hesitated to indict an entire political generation. But even he falters at this point. Rather weakly he waves the flag of the new populism-an alliance of "Negroes, women, workers" that will somehow transfer power from the elite to the grass roots. He hopes vaguely that an excess of bloody rationalism will produce a rekindled "need for political humanism...
...America's voracious capital market. Should Frank and Jim of Frank & Jim's Bar become lucky enough to find themselves the target of an ITT takeover, for example, they might well walk away with ITT stock worth 25 times their annual earnings. In the period of reckless conglomerateering a few years ago, countless paper fortunes were traded away by the big boys on Frank & Jim ventures. Then credit got tight, a lot of good buyers turned out to be terrible managers, and the system came appallingly close to collapse. Smith shows how both the commercial banks...
Much of his strength lies in the difference between his words and his actions. He has been more successful at pacifying America than Vietnam, promising a falsely comfortable future he's wooed voters by playing on fears of the often reckless anger of the antiwar movement, and the reluctance of Americans to look at essential change...
...grand jury's questions on the grounds that a response would dry up their news sources. Under Nixon, an American newspaper was taken to court to prevent the publication of material that could in no way threaten the security of the United States. Under Nixon, wiretaps are employed with reckless abandon and defended at an acceptable form of social control. Nixon's mediocre Supreme Court relaforces repression. Nixon's Vice-President indulges in rhetoric which scorns civil liberties and vilifies a free press. Nixon transforms such words into official policy...
...Honolulu, there came another blow-which, in the unlikely event Eagleton survives, could well turn out to be what saved his candidacy. Washington Columnist Jack Anderson asserted on his daily Mutual broadcast that he had "located photostats of half a dozen arrests" of Eagleton "for drunk and reckless driving." "A damnable lie," Eagleton retorted furiously, and Anderson did indeed turn out to be wrong. After the Anderson disclosures boomeranged, Eagleton grew visibly more self-confident: he was going to fight on whether McGovern wanted him or not. Once, asked if he would take his case to the nation on television...