Word: blased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh-faced intense type, who could have graduated only from Putney; and Mike a pancake-faced, blase' type, who could have come from anywhere. Peter has none; he is going to go to Law School...
...Times article, Dennis praised the work of several small institutions, notably Northern Illinois University and Texas Western College, because they "turned themselves inside out for the Peace Corps; they're not blase." He would not identify the larger institutions he considered less enthusiastic...
...Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce becomes final in January. Jessel's reaction to the matter: "At my time of life, the charge is a compliment...
...last fall marked the beginning of new "Spectacular Activities Policy." Despite the hard work of chairman Roger Leed, the program did not live up to expectations. The reason for this failure was that Harvard has big names visiting the University at all times of the year, resulting in a blase attitude toward any group of "second Stringers...
...second point has particular bearing on any prospects that Herman Kahn will receive a blase reaction from those who indeed do absorb his voluminous and repititious points. Since only the very enthralled will bother with the book, they could naturally be expected to have violent reactions one way or the other; as for the rest--the apathetic public, silent generation, or whatever you want to call them--they neither actively care about nor know from such things, so their indifference matters little (at least at this stage...