Word: thanklessness
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Verba jokingly relates the library directorship offer to a New Yorker cartoon—which he sent Bok at the time—that pictures a CEO with his arm around a middle-manager. The CEO says, “Boswick, you did so well on that last miserable, thankless job we gave you that we have an even more miserable and thankless...
...post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply and supervise the reconstruction of Iraq's government--the U.S. seems to want to run things--but don't be surprised if the U.N. is eventually asked to step in. These will be thankless tasks, not likely to be noticed by the American public. And this is not a very romantic argument for a flawed institution--it is merely an argument for stability, prudence and practicality, values that conservatives used to celebrate...
...post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply and supervise the reconstruction of Iraq's government - the U.S. seems to want to run things - but don't be surprised if the U.N. is eventually asked to step in. These will be thankless tasks, not likely to be noticed by the American public. And this is not a very romantic argument for a flawed institution - it is merely an argument for stability, prudence and practicality, values that conservatives used to celebrate...
...thousand years ago, the streets of Rome had become fetid and knotted with traffic. Local rulers became so fed up that they declared: "The circulation of the people should not be hindered by numerous litters and noisy chariots." It was an early salvo in what would become an endless, thankless, unwinnable war. Around the same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers...
...right now that I have the utmost respect for the folks at 8 Garden Street in Byerly Hall who annually undergo the Sisyphean and, often, thankless task of telling nearly 20 thousand of the country’s best high school seniors that they are not good enough to come to Harvard. I think they do about as good a job as humanly possible selecting the right people to admit—but like all human beings, the admissions officers do make the occasional mistake, each year admitting—through no fault of their own—a small...