Word: blase
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be read in context to be fully appreciated. Along the way there are a series of (apercus) of varying profundity. Eberstadt is an accute observer of the intellectual and social snobbery which prevails among the wealthy young. Mocking the common assumption that to be sophisticated is to be blase, unflappable, Jem says, "It's not glamorous not to be shocked. It's autistic." (The pun on artistic should not be lost on those who have ever tried this route to social chic.) He continues...
...Otherworld. A family of five, touring the Great Pyramid of Egypt, is transported through a "space-time warp" to a mysterious world where the good people are androids, the bad people have ray guns, and no one is allowed to venture into the "forbidden zone." The family seems terribly blase about all this, but no more so than the series' creators: folks on this planet wear cardigan sweaters and three-piece suits remarkably like our own. Still, the show moves quickly, has sparks of humor and just might catch on. The final lesson, after all, is that TV "breakthroughs" often...
Richardson, the best known and most highly respected of the state's few Republicans, may be the most blase candidate ever to seek such high office...
...think it could happen." When his roommate called the police to report a burglary in their New Jersey house, Miller's budding cannabis plants were in plain view. Said he: "I know more people who smoke pot than smoke cigarettes." The police, when they arrived, were less blase. They arrested and handcuffed his roommate on the spot. Miller later pleaded guilty to charges of possession in order to clear his roommate's name and challenge the constitutionality of the police search...
...filled out a report two months ago to have them repair a cracked asbestos pipe, and when it was fixed, another crack in the same pipe was ignored," said Mark Skinner, a graduate student who works in the building, adding. "I'm struck by the general blase and negligent attitude of some of the people in EHS [Environmental Health and Safety--Harvard's office overseeing the removal...