Word: thoughtlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rumbled irate Defense Minister André Morice: "I don't know if Monsieur Kennedy spends peaceful nights without nightmares, but I do know that [his help to the Algerian rebels] will cost many more innocent lives and help prolong a drama that would have ended long ago if thoughtless friends had weighed their words and acts...
...moviegoing public. Whether one approves of the Kazan-Williams viewpoint or not, Baby Doll is as intensely serious and thoughtful a film as the American cinema has ever produced. A continuing condemnation of frank and disturbing films may be a further push along the road to a thoughtless mediocrity in the mass media...
...pads, pencils and cigarettes. Lunch is served, then the session begins. A central problem (how to cut down absenteeism, how to improve highway signs) is presented, and everyone storms ahead. No idea is too fantastic; a cardinal rule is that no one laughs at an idea. If anyone is thoughtless enough to say "It won't work," he is sternly reminded that such remarks are taboo by the chief brainstormer. who clangs a schoolmarm's bell at him. Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea, i.e., pick it up and improve on it. The result is usually...
...Roman Catholic Film Institute, whose Ecclesiastical Director, the Rev. John A. Burke, could "see no reason why adult Catholics should not see" it. Father Burke thought the film "a brilliant piece of work on a decadent subject" but that it "obviously was not the sort of thing for thoughtless people...
...stultifying task of transcribing lecture notes. Since lectures often serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography. At the end of an hour of furious scribbling, it is virtually impossible for most students to collect their thoughts enough to ask an intelligent question. Even if a relevant question does occur to them in mid-lecture, it is highly likely that it will slip their minds...