Word: thanklessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVALUATING poetry is a thankless task. There are no absolute standards of judgment, only wavering ones which depend on the fluctuation of taste and times. Perhaps the easiest way to criticize new poetry is to compare it to old poetry in an attempt to gain some perspective on its merit...
...Bryce Harlow is leaving the White House staff to return to private industry. He served as the President's liaison man with Congress, a sometimes thankless job in which his quick, self-deprecating wit served him well, but not well enough to ward off the criticism of some Congressmen who felt that they were being shut off from the White House. Harlow turned down an offer from Nixon to head the Republican National Committee...
...nobody more than the men who make the markets on the stock exchange floors -the specialists. Estimates of the losses absorbed by the 470 specialists on the New York and American stock exchanges run to tens of millions of dollars. That is not surprising, considering the seemingly thankless job that these insiders have. They are supposed to buy when most investors are selling, and sell when most are buying...
...rest of this vast cast, I can only make limited suggestions. The Soothsayer should not be played like Tiresias. Chairman and Iras, two thankless roles must either put on more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout...
...neighborly neutrality in a war fought by guerrillas and insurgents is a thankless one at best. That neither Cambodia nor Laos has yet stepped over the brink is partially due to the wits of Sihanouk and Souvanna. Perhaps the cagey Sihanouk has best summarized the plight of Southeast Asian neutralists. "I'll keep maneuvering as long as I have cards in my hand, first a little to the left and then a little to the right," he said. "And when I have no more cards to play, I'll stop...