Word: thoughtlessness
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Your article titled "Seniors Unfazed by News" (Feb. 25) struck me and several of my friends as unbelievably skewed. The Radcliffe Senior Soiree has nothing to do with the war. Senior women and their dates should not be presented as thoughtless socialites enjoying themselves on the eve of international disaster because they attended a social event that had been organized long before even the January 15 U.N. deadline. You completely missed the point of the soiree, and misrepresented the evening, as it was enjoyed by most everybody there...
...find this assumption about the community's political stance to be thoughtless and personally offensive. We hope that your choice of headlines was an oversight and not a promotion of the said assumption. If it was the latter, please review your responsibility to uphold the standards of good journalism and please reconsider the use of your power to manipulate your readership. Julia M. Fromholz '92 Courtney Alaine Williams...
...soon the talk of the town, Norwich, Conn., a circumstance that does not dismay her husband. "People in this society need to hear that adultery is wrong and that it destroys families," he proclaims. "I believe in the institution of marriage." His wife's lawyer is less enthused. "The thoughtless and insensitive act by Mr. Jakubowski has caused enormous embarrassment and humiliation to all members of his family," she says...
...that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch to a market economy, he was greeted with derision. The warmest ovation was saved for conservative hero Yegor Ligachev, who fired up the audience with an attack on "thoughtless radicalism...
...ultimate stage mother, faithfully evokes the original Jerome Robbins production, including, alas, the cutesy, numbers-strung-together Arthur Laurents libretto. If Daly cannot quite dislodge from memory the performances of Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury, particularly not as a singer, she rivals them as a force of nature. Coarse, thoughtless, unscrupulous and fierce, her Mama Rose is nonetheless just likable enough to explain why two daughters and a surrogate husband stick around so long and forgive so much. Among supporting players, only Jonathan Hadary, as Rose's agent and lover, excels...