Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm vote.† In language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity" in dealing with the farm problem. Ike, he said, has been guilty of "transparent hypocrisy" or "just doesn't know what's going...
With such a background, it is understandable that Vellucci is more popular in East Cambridge than such Harvard graduates on the Council as DeGuglielmo and Edward A. Crane '35. The councillor has come to represent the little man in a perpetual struggle with the big callous administrations of Harvard, M.I.T., and the state and city governments. He would also like to extend his friendship to the student body as against the Harvard bureaucracy, although his threats last year to fine every student who parked illegally might seem to belie this...
...service rendered by Biographer Ervine is a reminder that the critics are wrong in taking everything Shaw said about himself at face value. He told, for instance, how he had sponged off his mother while he was trying to learn his trade as a writer. This picture of the callous genius-which was to appear in many of his plays-delighted him, but it was totally untrue, says Ervine. Similarly, Shaw roared outrageous-and contradictory-political, social and economic opinions that, often as not, were hyperbole...
...direction of Jerome Kilty is largely responsible for the clarity of the above point. He has paced the play well and mounted it beautifully. Each of the several enthusiasms of the Christians and the Romans comes through in perfect counterpoint to the others: the callous Caesar and the Captain who is in love stand apart from the brawling gladiators; the cowardly and debauched Christian, Spintho, pairs off against the iron Ferrovius as Ferrovius sets off the lovely, if confused, Lavinia. All revolves, however, around the gentle and humanitarian Androcles, and never more clearly than in the touching, though unspoken devotion...
...very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner...