Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels about the South must have a cast of tormented characters, preferably demented, a generous supply of sex, mostly illicit, and some Negroes who hang around and endure. Then, if you really want to pull out the stops, add some crafty politicians who exploit the race situation out of callous disregard for their constituents. No Place To Run has all this and more, being billed as a "tense, extraordinarily powerful novel of demagoguery and personal conflict in Mississippi...
...facts, ignored by one and all (including the low and callous Boston sports scribes), speak for themselves. Boston has the best left-fielder and batsman in baseball, Ted Williams, the best rightfielder in baseball, Jackie Jensen, the best third baseman in baseball, Frank Malzone, the finest clutch performer and general handyman in the league, Pete Runnels, plus a large number of reliable sidemen...
...indictment should be of those callous leaders who order airmen to fly observation missions so close to an unfriendly border. EDWARD B. STEVENS Silver City...
...made to dream that she is about to enter into chaste matrimony with a handsome prince. Her face is transformed from a bedraggled chippie's to an incarnation of Hawthorne's Hilda. Then the devil snaps his fingers, house lights come up, and she awakens to rows of hooting, callous men delighting in her vulnerability. But she has died before, and she will die again...
...sure the South will not passively submit to a callous scheme to deprive the whites of their civil rights. Massive resistance is the ever-growing answer as evidenced by the Arkansas vote...