Word: blased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others were sophisticated and blase. "The House system is no big thing," a freshman said. "I don't care what House I'm in. A House is only a place where you sleep...
When Ross is allowed to come on, the reader gets a wifely glimpse of the homely, ungainly and not too articulate Coloradan who proved that an itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that...
...gunwales with electronic hardware, hostages to one of the Communist world's most belligerent and intransigent regimes (see THE WORLD). Though the Navy bravely tried to make light of the loss of the equipment aboard Pueblo, arguing that the Russians have comparable gear, few electronics experts were so blase. "This equipment is so esoteric that it verges on the unattainable," said one U.S. authority, who considers Pueblo's capture "a really major catastrophe." In purely political terms, it was also a crisis of the first magnitude...
...Maryknoll fathers suspended the Melvilles from their right to say Mass or hear confessions. More fortunate was the Melvilles' close friend, Father Blase Bonpane, 38, whose house in Guatemala City they frequently used for meetings with Sister Marian and her students. Threatened with a similar suspension, he returned home for reassignment to Hawaii, but he remains sympathetic to the rebel cause. "No one wants violence," he says, "but when 2% of the people own 80% of the arable land, and a right-wing army shoots reformers on the spot as so-called Communists, then violence is already institutionalized...
...with it nowadays, the swinger and would-be swinger are expected to take a blase if not widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise...