Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more precisely, the problem lies in what now passes for conservatism on this campus and in this country: neo-conservatism. This is, by and large, a callous socio-economic philosophy that expresses the self-interested traditionalism of those fortunate enough not to be among the dispossessed...
TRUE paleo-conservatism has, as Dostoevsky explained, compassion and a sense of responsibility for "the insulted and the injured." It is not the callous libertarianism of Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick or Margaret Thatcher, which lends itself well to upper-class twittery and renunciations of social responsibility...
DeVore said he was "terribly sorry" for those excluded from the course. "I had to be callous, but there didn't seem to be an alternative," he said...
...make their lives and careers harder. Jacqueline O'Neill had informed them that where real estate is concerned, Harvard University is a revenue-earning corporation, period. I am ashamed that the University in which I teach presents itself in public as one of the most crass and callous developers in Massachusetts...
...recommending that office doors upstairs be locked at all times. Yet the administration should not place so much of the responsibility for security upon us. Implicit in its reluctance to improve the present security system is the judgement that further protection is outweighed by the additional cost--a callous analysis, by my measure. I can think of several proposals for reforming Harvard's security system...