Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents of U.M.T. had a potent spokesman, too. With typical disregard of what appeared to be popular approval, Ohio's Senator Bob Taft last week declared he would fight "conscription . . . to the bitter end." U.M.T., said Taft, was wasteful and obsolete. "Conscription was no insurance of victory in France, Italy, or Germany." It would improve neither the morals, discipline, nor health of U.S. youth. "The Army wants boys for twelve months consecutively because it wants to change their habits of thought, to make them soldiers, if you please, for the rest of their lives." It was unAmerican. "Militarism...
...total disregard of international...
Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
...policy of halting further Russian expansion, the Arab threat to raise Middle East havoc as an answer to Jewish immigration is no threat at all. But despite all speculation, UN failure to deal with the refugee problem at once will convict it of its greatest weakness to date-a disregard for humanity...
Whiter than History? Actually, the film is a visual opera, with all of opera's proper disregard of prose-level reality. As such, it is an extraordinarily bold experiment, fascinating and beautiful to look at. But Eisenstein has denied himself so much that is native to cinema and has concentrated so fiercely on political pedagogy that the film is also tiring and disappointing. It is saddening as well, when compared with his earlier films, which were not only more vigorous, free and poetic, but far more "revolutionary...