Word: thanklessness
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...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...
...Hanoi has done no more than regain what was lost last fall. It is highly unlikely that the North Vietnamese seek the thankless burden of occupying all of Laos. But it would be surprising if, during the current offensive, they did not try to bloody the government's nose by pushing a bit farther than before...
...What has always hurt most about fighting the "radical" fight is that it is so thankless. Every time "working-class" strangers bait us on the street for the length of our hair or the age of our clothes, we are struck with the ironic ingratitude of "their" nastiness. Don't "they" know that we're fighting for "them...