Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were themselves contradictory. What other age could produce such an exemplar of pious perversity as Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and chaplain to Queen Victoria herself? Even before he became engaged to young Fanny Grenfell, Kingsley wrote letters to her that were full of erotic imaginings: "A wanton tongue--yet chaste & holy, stole between my lips! What were you doing?--You were secretly kissing me." Yet whenever he felt that his yearnings were going beyond the "chaste & holy" Kingsley would sentence himself to a scourging, and tell Fanny about it too. Her family quite sensibly asked...
Meanwhile, President Reagan condemned the bombing of TWA flight 840 as a "barbaric, wanton act of international terrorism" and said no individual or group has been ruled out as the perpetrator...
Genet was convinced of the immorality of the system, so he had no doubt that his audiences would react in disgust at the wanton decadence and hypocrisy of the establishment figures before them on the stage...
...Cambridge District Court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, when the students said they will attempt to have the charges against themreduced from arson, a felony which impliespre-meditation of the crime, to wanton destructionof property, a misdemeanor...
...gain jobs and admission to schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...