Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After the requisite number of tears and drinking bouts, Elgin is forced to realize that he had deceived himself throughout the relationship; Caroline is not a perfect princess and their love did not a fairy tale make. Elgin's child-like dream of a relationship more exalted than a callous one-night stand is smashed unmercifully. His realization that he loved Caroline only as long as she reciprocated becomes an important lesson...
...school groups sponsored other activities this week, including a teach-in Wednesday night. They also circulated an open letter with 467 signatures asserting that "the Burger Court has responded with callous indifference to the urgent claims of those seeking justice through the legal system...
South African Prime Minister John Vorster has defended the bannings by contending that the outlawed organizations posed a major threat to state security. This argument is not only callous but preposterous, given that the government has restricted the activities of these organizations for years, through continual security police harrassment and routine detention and banning of the groups' leaders...
...used an Afrikaans expression [Dit laat my koud] which meant that I was not emotionally involved, the same as if you would say to me that your aunt died yesterday. I would simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew who he was, of course, and the record of his organization...
...Vorster regime's only response to the Biko controversy has been a sickening mixture of callous indifference, duplicitous disclosures to the press, and continued delay in releasing Biko's autopsy report. Now in response to these latest disturbing reports, the government has issued a formal complaint against The Mail, and thus tacitly threatened a future crack-down on all newspapers critical of its increasingly unconscionable policies...