Word: thankless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Managerial personnel, Rakosi said, "do not have sufficient determination to create the necessary discipline with iron hands . . . They try to avoid the thankless duty of disciplining their workers and instead seek to establish a sort of 'good fellow' spirit by which they ensure their own popularity." From now on, he concluded, "managers and foremen who tolerate bad work, bad discipline and laziness . . . will be relentlessly eliminated...
Sculpture is thankless work these days. Private collectors and museums can seldom afford it, public buildings do without it; even Roman Catholic churches, which supported Western sculpture for centuries, now generally buy mass-produced statues of painted plaster (TIME, Jan. 17). The wonder is that sculptors keep going, and manage to chip out such new works as were shown at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...
...lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband-one of those thankless, long-suffering bystander parts which might have been merely sappy-is ably played by Mark Stevens...
...Picture. The man who dares to bring Hamlet, his friends and his antagonists to life has tackled one of the most fascinating and thankless tasks in show business. There can never be a definitive production of a play about which no two people in the world agree. There can never be a thoroughly satisfying production of a play about which so many people feel so personally and so passionately. Very likely there will never be a production good enough to provoke less argument than praise...
...design of Harvard Stadium, which has practically half of its seating capacity in the deep bowls behind the end zones, is one undeniable reason why the H.A.A.'s task of alloting seats is such a thankless one. But the confusion, the disappointment, the hard feelings, that accompanied distribution of seats for last fall's football games stemmed in part from archaic methods and inefficiency within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack...