Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does, however, feel strongly about Secretary Herter's recent remark that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc": "it was a thoughtless thing to say--well, perhaps we'd better say unwarranted, it is possible that he did think about it. But, by lumping a man together with your enemy like this, without even asking him for an explanation, why you almost force him to join with your enemy...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...
...filled with chivalric ideals of honor, the other cynically dismissing honor as mere "air" - stand all manner of men, and of human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur's slayer and the eventual victor of Agincourt. With its carousing prince and its treacherous king and its traitorous rebels, with its grand-mannered plotting and grand-languaged speeches, Henry IV has considerable vitality without Falstaff...