Word: thanklessness
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Rhinelander accepted the controversial and rather thankless position as director of General Education three years ago, forsaking the opportunity of devoting himself to scholarly research in order to administer the new program. He then proceeded in the face of considerable opposition and departmental provincialism, as well as the usual amount of administrative red tape, to build General Education into an impressive structure in the Harvard curriculum...
Albert Berman's The realistic Imagination embarks upon the thankless task of justifying the imagination. The following sentence appears to be on the threshold of a fascinating argument: "The Mechanistic philosophy is as much a myth as the story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman...
...November Advocate finally shows increased precision in the thankless matter of selection and editing. Fortunately, it also maintains a high level of writing. As a magazine it has balance and poise, and the writing shows the virtues of simplicity and restraint. It is a fine issue...
...moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could be neatly scotched by saying that such a move would be lying down together like dogs. Or, in reflecting on the thankless job of those who are trying to rid the government of 20 years of treason, he could say that his is a dog's life. While the canine cliche has a good, true ring to us, there is a small minority which thinks that Secretary Wilson is barking up the wrong tree...
...three citizens who sat in judgment behind a big, horseshoe-shaped table, it symbolized one of history's most thankless tasks: to decide between a demonstrably great and compelling public figure and an impersonal something called the security of the U.S. One of the three, Ward V. Evans, 71, was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago; a second, Thomas Morgan, 66, was a successful retired man of business; the third was a former Secretary of the Army, and a substantial pillar of liberal education in his own right, President Gordon Gray, 45, of the University...