Word: thoughtless
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...Democratic Club made no attempt to determine the true nature of the demonstration beforehand, preferring instead a mercenary and uninformed attempt to gain publicity. This thoughtless action was alienating to many on campus, insulting to the rally's organizers, and heart-rending to the many Cubans in attendance. It is hard to believe that the Harvard Democrats are the ideological heirs of John F. Kennedy, for they are a disgrace to the cause of freedom he championed. Mark A. Sauter...
...People in Cambridge hate Harvard students. The clean-up will let them see that we care, that we're not thoughtless," Gwen E. Gorman '82, a Kirkland House resident said yesterday. Another Kirkland House student agreed, saying. "You can't be against this thing...
...always interrupted by some stroke of wit or humour ... so far from writing, [he] scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...
...heat, but the cultural humidity, which Ann Beattie maintains just this side of a dramatic downpour. The single break in her purposefully oppressive atmosphere occurs when John Joel plinks his sister in the side with a gun he did not know was loaded. It is the sort of casual, thoughtless act usually associated with children. But then most of Beattie's grownups, particularly her men, behave in childish ways...
...something more than a one-dimensional characterization. Her Duchess is a skittish teenager, determined to do just as she pleases. She falls in love with her steward, contracting a secret marriage with him, and that mesalliance causes her downfall. Yet Bendheim does not make the Duchess a giddy and thoughtless girl. Though young, the Duchess is nevertheless a great aristocrat, fully aware of the responsibilities of her social position and of the danger in which her marriage will place her. At one moment, Bendheim skips for joy; at another, she dismisses her servants with a single high-handed gesture...