Word: blasing
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This discretion seems wise. In the face of the barrages of entertainment fired at them by advertisers, U.S. children have not only retained their sanity and their digestions but kept a deadly critical sense. Millions of them listen to radio and watch television with the same blase attitude with which New York subway riders flip through the sensations recounted in the tabloids. In the last analysis, both the advertiser and the entertainer are at their mercy-with their little fingers still gummy from the last helping of breakfast food, they can turn a button and bring industrial empires tumbling down...
...also means that Nassau men are shut off from the outside world and the politics and girls thereof. Princetonians are notoriously blase to national affairs-their only political club is a half-hearted Liberal Union-and girls are rarer on the campus than born-rimmed glasses...
...American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols in front of a mansion. A blase woman dripping in furs brushes half of them off and asks the butler to sweep the rest away. Then she pours herself a large shot of liquor. Tito nudged me. "Whisky!" he said...
...Even blase Hollywood was impressed by the invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...
...next question was loaded: "Is a TIME editor or writer, in general or in particular, your idea of what a man should be?" The replies to that one (the questionnaires were unsigned) rang the gong from "Certainly not!" to "Yes!" Some found our editors & writers "too blase," lacking "glamor" and "physical charm," inclined to be "walking brains, not people." Others thought them "very nice people," "what I expect a competent editor or writer of this category to be," "superior personalities and a few really engaging minds." One researcher, however, felt that only the editors' & writers' wives could truly...