Word: thoughtlessly
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...really expect voluntary guidelines for umbrella carrying conduct to work? To think so would simply be native, Certainly education is important, for our sidewalks will never be safe until everyone who uses them understands the dangers of thoughtless umbrella carrying. However, voluntary measures would be inadequate and irresponsible in the face of what can only be termed a grave threat to public health...
...meals until the meal plan begins. As I am sure you know, food is expensive, even at the Freshman Union which, the letter mentions, will serve upperclass men and women on a cash basis. In addition to the extraordinary required costs of attending Harvard College, this expense is a thoughtless oversight on Harvard's part, at best. At worst, it is indicative of blatant disregard for the welfare of its students...
...Hymie" and to New York City as "Hymie town," Jackson said over and over, "I have no recollection." But at a Manchester synagogue two days before the New Hampshire primary, Jackson finally admitted making the offensive comments. "In private talks we sometimes let our guard down and become thoughtless," he explained. "It was not in a spirit of meanness, but an off-color remark having no bearing on religion or politics. However innocent and unintended, it was insensitive and wrong...
From a practical standpoint it is now too late to move Commencement a day later, as the students are demanding. But the controversy should make Harvard aware of the insensitivity which it showed in not changing the date earlier, and help it avoid the same thoughtless attitude in dealing with various minority groups in the future...
...make better fiction: the lonely duffers in The Old Boys (1964); the washed-up crew of residents in The Boarding House (1965); Lady Dolores, the antiadultery crusader of The Love Department (1966). Trevor's characters are not underdogs in any social or political sense. They can be obtuse, thoughtless, silly and casually cruel. His style, fully displayed in this complete collection of his short stories and a new novel, is formal and astringent, though never arch...