Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That kind of thoughtless assault on privacy has helped put telemarketing high on the list of industries Americans love to hate. Whether you are just sitting down to dinner or anxiously waiting for your beloved to say, "I will," the phone pests always seem to call at exactly the wrong time. Often the despised intruder is not even human, but a recorded sales message delivered by a rapid-fire automatic dialing machine...
Yours is a legacy not to be thrown away. In the U.S. there are those prepared to dispense with the American approach to ethnic diversity and begin counting by race. It is a dangerous, thoughtless course that we will one day regret with Balkan intensity. Similarly, the Canadian solution of dignified if sometimes disputatious coexistence between two great peoples is one too precious to throw away. Save the best...
There is a world of difference between the suggestion that a student would speak a language spoken by his or her ancestors and a thoughtless, misplaced Black stereotype. The analogy Cheng makes is ridiculously flawed--and is far more insensitive than any alleged remark or inefficiency attributed to Epps...
Certainly, many Harvard students have families who are in economic situations that enable them to leave town in the middle of the week to attend graduation. Regardless, it is a crime to limit graduation to those of us who do. Such thoughtless planning reinforces Harvard's stereotype as a university reserved for the privileged elite...
...barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself. Is there room for optimism? Yes, but only if one can imagine the people of 2050 looking back at the mad spasm of consumption and thoughtless waste in the 20th century as an aberration in human history...