Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman (Mildred Dunnock) haunted by her impending death. She ruminates on many things and, like the play itself, comes to grips with none. Known only as "The Mother," she talks of old age, of passions spent and love unrequited, of parenthood and the serpents' teeth of thankless children. Since the play was originally written some 20 years ago by French Novelist, Dramatist and Film Writer Duras, it is very much in the theater-of-the-absurd tradition and echoes that genre's abiding theme -whatever we do or do not do, nothingness conquers...
...Harvard dean recently put it, "Matina has had to spend a great deal of time maintaining the institution. Radcliffe is being swallowed and she's gotten the thankless task of seeing that the cat [Harvard] swallows it slowly, piece by piece...
Easing the transition has been Needham's thankless mission. By the accounts of even his bitterest enemies, his job was an impossible one. He had to negotiate Wall Street acceptance of reforms that he opposed strongly himself because he felt that they would undermine the pre-eminence of the organization he headed. For example, he favored the idea of one central U.S. securities market, as long advocated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but he left no doubt that he wanted the N.Y.S.E. to be that market. The SEC, on the other hand, wants a computerized network that would...
...just a worker now," Holcombe said yesterday while spooning down beef stew during his break. "Being a shop steward is a thankless job and I'll never do it again," he said...
Recent attacks on the 1-1-2 plan do not acknowledge the real issues and are rather unfair to its advocates. First, those who support 1-1-2 have done a thankless service in identifying the particular problems of sophomore year. David Riesman's thoughtful treatment of these in the letter at issue have been totally ignored. Opponents of 1-1-2 need to show that (as I believe) a separate sophomore year would on balance meet these problems no better than the Houses...