Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man-about-town who hires a pretty young nobody (Stella Andrew) to come to the ball in the hope that she can bewitch his sensitive twin brother out of the clutches of a selfish heiress. What with being so ignominiously employed and with falling in love with her callous employer, the girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through fairyland, yearning for adventure, or poverty...
...merely to entertain. The play tells two barely contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces two ways. It seems utterly callous where Loveless sins with his wife's cousin and house guest; it seems all but Victorian when Loveless' wife not only resists seduction but reduces her would-be seducer to shame...
...nice bridge, probably-all $732,000 of it. But how is anyone going to park with people whirling around him in a rotary? Mr. Langsworth of Muuroo-Langsworth, the contractors for Eliot Bridge, conceded that it "might disturb one a bit." A workman was equally callous: "They'll just have to find another place further down...
Such mysteries as the lugubrious drums, bells, and fish horns that echo in tombs during initiations, the awsome initials OTIRUNBCDIFT on the Skull and Bones catalog, and the Wolf's Head water bill-highest in New Haven--these are likely to attract the most callous student. Yet most students do not heel their way up the extra-curricular ladder for the sale goal of "going Bones," or at least they say they don't. The six tombs are more important as the extreme result of the Yale credo of success, and as an exaggerated example of it. For the spooks...
They spoke of the dead with a quiet casualness that seemed callous. "Too bad about the sergeant," two boys said to me as they watched stretcher bearers carry the blanketed form of their platoon sergeant downhill towards an ambulance. The sergeant had been killed by a mortar shell a few minutes before. "Hey, Al, your buddy got it," shouted a jeep driver at a G.I. eating by the roadside, "down on the hill this afternoon." The G.I. looked at the driver and nodded; then he went back to eating. Many men had died; it was not an unusual thing...