Word: blased
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...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...
...fleet of six Cambridge fire trucks hustled over to Mather Hall last night at 9 p.m. with sirens screaming. 'While a ladder was raised to the roof, and while students were shouting "I smell it but can't see it," firemen spent five minutes in locating and dousing the blase. The undramatically small leaf are, found in a window well next to the entrance of Mather Hall C, was probably caused by a misplaced cigarette...
Another alleged factor is the so-called "bourgeois grade orientation" of public school graduates as opposed to the blase attitudes of many students from private schools. In addition, defenders of private schools graduates claim that preppies tend to engage in more extracurricular activities than students of public school background...
Here, however, the blase American consumer takes it all passively. The banks stay open. The streets are filled only with the first Christmas shoppers and children off from school for the Thanksgiving week-end. No shouting, no cheers, not even a national distribution of cigars...
...Loeb alarm was turned in at 5:50 p.m. after a group of students and University employees had been unsuccessfully fighting the blase with fire for several minutes...