Word: thoughtlessness
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THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...
...believed that Christ actually rose from the dead. Although there were a large number of Catholics and Protestants in the room, the teaching fellow was greeted with muffled silence. Harvard students, for some reason, are embarrassed about religion. And the unease comes to the fore when someone is so thoughtless as to discuss religious beliefs in public...
...September 6 address before the crowd at Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, Secretary of State George P. Shultz pointed out the evils of isolationism, warning of "thoughtless escapism, a retreat from responsibility, an attempt to evade the reality of our dependence on the world and the world's dependence...
...thoughtless and somewhat disruptive trick, the Ad Board responded with a bomb. And unless there are compelling facts justifying the Draconian sentence which haven't come out yet, we think the Ad Board should drastically reduce or overturn its decision when it hears the students' appeal at its meeting tomorrow afternoon...
...students from India, we find the analogy extremely offensive, thoughtless, and ill-informed. "Squares" in India may be densely populated, but we fail to see how that makes them obscene. And why the reference to "New Delhi" on page...