Word: calloused
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...comes pretty close to efforts at bribery and is only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added a Democratic twist: "It is . . . as callous and calculated a come-on as the grab-and-squeeze tactics of Taft...
...promises, the future doesn't look promising; the worm that seems to turn is still a leopard cursed with his spots. It is a chronicle of countless families whose struggle is less for bread than for something more than bread, and who are riot 1 ^o callous to love, but too burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that it deals with a condition rather than a specific situation, and can only grind away at what is quickly apparent and largely unalterable. Themselves beset by their material, the authors...
...student life, are a danger to the public, and should be suppressed by law. One must still contend with the methods used by the police here in Cambridge to disperse the meeting. Are the police warranted in handling the situation which arose last night in such a brutal and callous manner...
...standards generally used in judging movies whose purpose is to argue a social moral, Flesh and Fury is particularly unstimulating. The symbols are painfully obvious: Jan Sterling, as the money-sucking girl friend, represents all who are callous and indifferent towards the naturally afflicted; Mona Freeman, as a reporter and a member of a wealthy family, represents the sympathetic and the understanding. These two struggle insipidly for Callan's love, the outcome never in doubt. Virtue at length triumphs, not through its own strength, but through the machinations of the plot...
...means the loss of a valuable personality and is certain to cause pain and misery. On the other hand, no one knows whether the child will live. One eventuality is certain, the other problematic." In a front-page editorial, the weekly Church of England Newspaper called the doctrine "inhuman, callous and cruel...