Word: thoughtlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
With regard to some of the more thoughtless commentary of the earlier letters, the writers may be interested to know that Harvard students recommended both of these guests to the Foundation as outstanding figures in sports and music who deserved recognition. This recognitions was accorded in the same spirit as that given to similar public figures by other Ivy League schools (Yale's sports honoree this year was Arthur Ashe) and Harvard groups like Hasty Pudding, Ferguson, Gordon, Gooding, and Cardwell should remember that Hasty Pudding is predominantly white group that mostly recognizes white artists. Such recognition is highly valued...
...that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment in the Cuisinart of his ego. It is a measure of the play's richness that some of its sweet essence survives such thoughtless processing...
Suppose I should forget, grow thoughtless--What if the little words came back, Running in upon me, running back Like little children home from school? Suppose I spoke--oh, I don't know--Some vagabond phrase out of the summer! What if I said 'I love you'? Something as simple...
...implicit assumption that persons without college educations are inferior and little more than a necessary nuisance to people like Mr. Mazumdar. American liberalism has a strong connection with education and intellectualism, a connection that often breeds a blind arrogance and goes far to defeat its preached tenets. The thoughtless self-indulgence of Mr. Mazumdar's foolish editorial is exactly the sort of thing one hopes not to find in persons as loftily educated as he seems to assume himself to be. "Learning Class Zero?" Paul D. Erickson GSAS