Word: thanklessness
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Over the long months since August 1948, the case of Alger Hiss had been an agonizing public ordeal that left its mark on those who lived it. For a weary, tarnished man who had trodden the harsh, thankless road to Communism and back, the verdict was at least a partial expiation. Milking the cows on his Maryland farm, Whittaker Chambers said: "My work is finished...
Managerial personnel, Rakosi said, "do not have sufficient determination to create the necessary discipline with iron hands . . . They try to avoid the thankless duty of disciplining their workers and instead seek to establish a sort of 'good fellow' spirit by which they ensure their own popularity." From now on, he concluded, "managers and foremen who tolerate bad work, bad discipline and laziness . . . will be relentlessly eliminated...
Sculpture is thankless work these days. Private collectors and museums can seldom afford it, public buildings do without it; even Roman Catholic churches, which supported Western sculpture for centuries, now generally buy mass-produced statues of painted plaster (TIME, Jan. 17). The wonder is that sculptors keep going, and manage to chip out such new works as were shown at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...
...lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband-one of those thankless, long-suffering bystander parts which might have been merely sappy-is ably played by Mark Stevens...
...Picture. The man who dares to bring Hamlet, his friends and his antagonists to life has tackled one of the most fascinating and thankless tasks in show business. There can never be a definitive production of a play about which no two people in the world agree. There can never be a thoroughly satisfying production of a play about which so many people feel so personally and so passionately. Very likely there will never be a production good enough to provoke less argument than praise...