Word: blase
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This weekend I'm going back up into the Coffin in the Sky and pretend I'm an assistant cheerleader for the Harvards. It takes more than a pack of super-indifferent, super-blase sports staffs to subdue the Future Old Grad...
...clock, in the stone-paved Quincy Street courtyard facing the Varsity Club, the students of the oldest and most blase of America's universities will gather to steal a Big Green leaf out of Dartmouth's book by staging a mass rally in an effort to hoist the team from Hanover on its own enthusiastic petard...
When the balloons, littered beer cans and mangled bodies had all been swept up from Mem Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops for all time. Entertainment--loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand...
...sturdy hand carries the grown-ups through crisis after crisis. Despite a rather obvious lack of inspiration displayed by the author in mediocre lines and a transparent plot, "Your Loving Son" succeeds in maintaining an ambling pleasant pace with just enough spurt here and there to keep a blase Back-Bayer awake...
...Saint is back on our shores and is as devastatingly charming as ever. The Saint in Palm Springs balances Kitty Foyle very well, because it has plenty of murders, gags, and blase romance. The Saint solves all problems, and rides off into the desert whistling his tantalizing tune, undoubtedly preparing to come back again to some other resort, drink his scotches and save plenty of maidens who are plenty capable of taking care of themselves...