Word: thanklessly
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...liberal then has a thankless task. He must swallow his principles, obfuscate the issues, and pander to the ignorant. This might all be more-or-less good political fun if he did not also have to turn his back on the Negro and again mutter "wait a little longer." There is but one consolation: if the liberal plays the hypocrite well, there will be ample opportunity to make up for it next year...
Though Monk's career has been painful and often thankless, it has also been a tortoise-and-hare race with flashier, more ingratiating men?many of whom got lost in narcotic fogs, died early in squalor and disgrace or abandoned their promise, to fall silent on their horns. Monk goes on. It is his high philosophy to be different, and having steadily ignored all advice and all the fads and vogues of jazz that made lesser musicians grow rich around him, he now reaps the rewards of his conviction gladly but without surprise. He has a dignified, three-album...
Grey Eminence. Agriculture Minister Ivan Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities...
Absurdity & Despair. The bleak, mocking portrayal of 19th century Russian life that Shostakovich chose for his libretto survives from the original version. A gay and clever girl marries into a loveless, thankless life among crude and cruel merchants. A love affair blossoms with one of her husband's workmen, and, bewitched by the promise of a new life, she kills both husband and father-in-law. Just as she and her lover take happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted...
...fine idea" but added "I don't think it would draw many additional people. Not many students have time to go dasking off to HCUA meetings all the time, much loss to work on committees. Membership in the Council requires a great deal of hard, unpublished, and often thankless work. The Council does as efficient job, but there's nothing spectacular about the work that would have wide popular appeal...