Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
...short, the university is a necessary condition for sustained radical analysis of American society and for strong radical movements to undertake its reconstruction; to diminish the university with reckless and witless attacks, with violence for the hell of it, is to diminish our radical future...
Highlights of the match was a daring play by Cornell's Dan Schneider in the third chukka. Attempting to block a Kaplan goal, Schneider rushed the length of the arena with reckless abandon. Although his horse gave up. Schneider did not and flew headlong into the end wall. The Big Red star remounted his horse uninjured and received a hearty round of applause for his heroic effort...
...spooks me. Because all this breeds in turn a kind of reckless tolerance in the adult world for youthful peccadilloes-the drug scene, the Marxist bent, the inordinate self-indulgence...
General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their...