Word: thoughtlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture's recently radical theme, that man has a responsibility for other men, and must answer, eventually, to his conscience for deeds of thoughtless cruelty, is couched in terms of a rather good mystery story, with proper touches of comedy and suspense. In a series of flashbacks five people are forced to admit the role they had in driving a girl to suicide...
...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...
...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...
When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work compounded of his life-long scorn of the bourgeoisie, their morals, their intellectual giddiness, their thoughtless generalizations...
Crooner Dick Haymes, who sat out World War II in the U.S. as a draft-exempt neutral alien, got final word that he is now an undesirable alien. A U.S. immigration official ordered Haymes deported to his native Argentina. Dick's thoughtless error: he illegally re-entered the U.S. last year after a flying visit to Hawaii, where he trysted with Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, now his fourth bride. Last week, back in Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table...