Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambling press conference in his Detroit hotel room. United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, all ears when it comes to hearing opportunity, promptly wired the White House: "To workers who are desperately trying to find ways and means to feed and clothe their families, this kind of callous facetiousness is, to say the least, in gross poor taste." Back in Washington, insisting he was astonished by the furor, bemused Howard Pyle quickly apologized. Said he: "Hardships of unemployment any time, anywhere, are not pleasant...
...incisively the character of a young, aggressive politician and the small Pennsylvania city in which he lives. Reichley's staccato prose is full of the broken rhythms of speech and laughter which fill the words with energy until they seem ready to burst from the page with excitement. Sometimes callous, sometimes raucous, always to the point, his style is very far from Agee's, and in its way is effective and gripping...
...source of delight to me to find TIME [Jan. 23] giving the sport spotlight to amateur wrestling via "Bethlehem's Champ." It is refreshing to see such an article in the welter of stuff and nonsense intended to promote, rather than discourage, the utterly stupid "rassling" that callous promoters continue to foist on the naive public...
...irked by the "tender concern"' Shown for the President since his illness by "practically all the New-Fair Deal" politicians and journalists. "It would be a sin and a shame, according to these folks," said the editorial, "for this lovely character to be high-pressured and dragooned by callous G.O.P. politicians into running for a second wearing, tearing White House term . . . he's earned a rest . . . and sob, sob, sob. What puzzles us is that you hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson had a heart attack, too ... Yet it seems quite...
...your Aug. 29 "South Africa's Tragedy in Colors," the callous and inclement attitude with regard to the sifting of human beings exhibited in the investigator's statement-"We may make a few mistakes and classify a few real Coloreds as natives, but that's a risk we must take if we are to sort out these people" -reminds me forcibly of another "sorting out to take place, which though not characterized by callousness will be nonetheless inexorable. It is the Last Judgment portrayed in Matthew 25: 31-46 as the separation of the sheep from...