Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often that Hollywood cooks up a mixture of mysticism and commercialism that doesn't stick in the throat. "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" is an exception. The ordinarily callous producers, script writers, camera men, idea men, rewriters and their uncles' brothers' cousins who for years have scraped the bottoms of their distorted imaginations and come up with every kind of recipe from "Frankenstein" to. Topper Keeps Returning" have at last fashioned a delightful fairy tale of this 1941 world...
...ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...
...this time the reading and moviegoing public may well be getting a little callous, even a little bored, toward the harrowing pictures in the press, cinema, and slick-paper magazines of the distress caused by the war abroad. It was perhaps inevitable that this sort of immunity should set in, concerned as people are with "the larger issues" of the war effort itself. Nevertheless, if the net result of Harvard's recent British war-relief drive can be taken as typical, this tendency has reached appalling proportions. Three thousand five hundred undergraduates contributed a grand total of less than...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...
...though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which have no meaning to the patient but which he has learned will impress others...