Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard University is now and always will be as much the property of its student body as of the Corporation. We must no longer tolerate from the Corporation such callous and irresponsible conduct, conduct inimical to the interests of every segment of the University community, as well as the broader external community. More than this, we cannot allow any recurrences of this conduct. Even if the Corporation were to make a complete about face on its policies at this very moment, there would be no guarantee that these policies would not be resumed again tomorrow. Experience has shown that...
...issues are satisfactorlly resolved. This action is necessary because the present mechanisms of policy-making at Harvard are totally inadequate. The decision-making power of the Corporation is completely unresponsive to student opposition to its decisions. Furthermore, the recent actions of the Corporation and the Administration display a callous disregard for the safety and lives of this student body...
Gardner's critique of the excesses of radical demonstrators was a telling one. He hit most of the vulnerable points of such protest--their theatricality, their callous manipulations of officials and police, their irresponsibility, and their numbness to the hostile and repressive reaction of the mass of United States society. But why did Gardner decide to abuse the worst of the radicals for the better part of his final speech and cast only an occasional critical sentence at what he called "that complacent lump of self-satisfied Americans who fatten on the yield of this society but never bestir themselves...
...joined the SS and become an unthinking mouthpiece for Nazi ideology. Kazakh, a purposeless intellectual uncertain about his future or his feelings, has turned from engineering to become a hypnotist and a pioneer in advertising with nouveau riche connections. Curiously, it is Kazakh who comes closest to being a callous cynic. Wirthof, despite his crass behavior in bordellos, his egotistic mistreatment of acquaintances and his sensual brutality, is actually the overemotional romantic...
Passengers on the Long Island Railroad are accustomed to seeing themselves as victims of a callous and capricious railroad management. The line's 150,000 New York commuters, said Nassau County Leader Eugene Nickerson last week, "travel in rolling slums -if they roll at all." When four commuters who share this opinion got together recently and staged a minor rebellion, they learned just how tough the authorities can be. The rebels were an employment counselor, Allen Simmons, 21, and three secretaries, Diane Glucksman, 21, Carole Geiger, 22, and Frances Piecora...