Word: blase
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...tired undergraduate would see a good play let him hie himself to Ye Wilbur Theatre where the rollicking musical comedy, "Very Good Eddie," is on view. There are songs and jokes and girls enough there to please the most blase, and the cast of principals could hardly be bettered. Not since Victor Herbert's "Red Mill" has a musical show of this order contained such tuneful melodies as Jerome Kern has written, and, wonder of wonder, "Very Good Eddie" has a really truly plot...
...Gink, in preparation for the grand and stupendous festival which will be held for the Seniors in the baseball cage tomorrow night. It is with great pride that the committee announces his presence as one of the chief features in a program which should inspire even the most blase to deeds of might...
...slumbering or highly indifferent. In former years the classes have responded far more readily to the dance and have enabled the committees by means of their support to make it a delightful affair. Whether or not the situation this year will be remedied by the disappearance of a somewhat blase attitude in a portion of the class remains to be seen...
Although the self-interest, the culture, and the social ethics of modern times are causes of the partial disappearance of brutal religious persecution, the equally powerful counter forces--passive curiosity, and contemptuous interest--are frequently met with. The former, attitude, characteristic of blase travellers in pursuit of novel experiences, is directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness...
...every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit which seldom enough gets...