Word: blased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Southwick's article is equally blase. I disagree on principle with his contention that action is more important than achievement, but the crowning arrogance was his statement that "Those who stayed home might as well be dead." Many of those who stayed at home were concerned and many acted and many more wore symbols of peace in individual protests. And those for whom last weekend in Washington was no more than an ego trip-I don't think they deserve any recognition for that...
...decision when the rocket ignites and begins to rise, and in the knowledge of the men strapped down inside the huge projectile -but the drama has become familiar from so many past launchings. The voyage of Apollo 8 was an event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space age, man stood on the very threshold of exploration of the solar system...
...Yale students look and act blase. Their football team has been winning so easily, for so long, that no one questions the inevitable: Brian Dowling cannot be beaten. In the immortal words of one undergraduate, "You never know what's going to happen--but you know that you're not going to lose...
...something in O'Neill refuses to be belittled. It is as if his greatness lies in his will to be great. His passionate intentions, in fact, become his talent-a rude, almost barbaric thrust that can seize a blase Broadway crowd and wring it dry, half from fatigue, half from an emotional buffeting that no other American playwright ever inflicted on an audience. O'Neill could do what only a major artist can do: make his public share in the life of his private demons...
Gerassi will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall, along with Blase Bonpane, the Maryknoll priest who was deported from Guatemala for aiding the guerrillas there...