Word: carelessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Maybe Harvard students today have too much else to do or too much to lose. Maybe we just have a stronger stomach for tyranny than our Revolutionary forefathers. The lack of hot breakfast glares as a public symbol that our administration is too careless and too calloused to even keep us fed, that they have hardly progressed since the 1700s. The UC has done nothing, between incendiary e-mails and media stunts for relevance, but found an “Idea Bank” as an “outlet” to silence our concerns. Most of us will...
...complication of paternity. The family vibe here is as tense as in earlier films by Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) and Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) but with a stalwart, creative dad who will somehow make things right. There's a similarly fruitful tension between the movie's hip, careless tone and the painstakingly retro stop-motion technique. The result is not a collision but a concerto and, for audiences, harmonic bliss. (Read "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star...
...with neon lettering and flawlessly coiffed ’80s hair, and dismissed it without a second thought. But while the music the album contains has a lot in common with the 1980s-throwback synthpop those people believed they were tossing aside, it also does not deserve such a careless dismissal...
Palin, one-more-week-of-being Governor Sarah • description of by Mike Murphy as "the political train wreck that keeps on giving" • description of by Peggy Noonan as "the most careless sower of discord since George W. Bush" • description of by Thomas Frank as "a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping" • just plain weirdness of • mutual love of firearms of Ted Nugent and • Op-Ed piece is "written by" warning about the dangers of the Obama energy plan previously supported by • thinning hair of • tweets about bears...
...health disparities among minorities as well as youths from different socioeconomic backgrounds," she says. "If youths are in an environment where they look around and see more adults dying early, then they may develop this perception that they will die early as well." And that may drive teens toward careless behaviors...