Word: calloused
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...answer to this must be obvious. Harvard cannot afford to have an underprivileged, discontented group in her midst. Those, so callous as to disregard the feelings of the group itself, should consider the harm such a condition does to a unity more important than that existing in the different Houses. For the House problem at present is a serious menace to the unity of the college...
...similar organizations in other colleges and universities can raise funds to take care of capable students who are fleeing the terrors of a dictatorship," he continued, "it will be evident that he American youth has not been made callous by the ruthlessness of the Russian experiment or the barbarities of the present German government...
ONCE Too OFTEN-Whitman Chambers-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Murder involving San Francisco newsmen and beautiful but callous columnist. Highly recommended to admirers of tough-guy mysteries...
...agreed entirely with that officer, then every newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing yes-man, can be put at the mercy of Government officials, of any party at any time, if those officials are callous enough or daring enough to ride roughshod over even the most elementary constitutional rights of citizens and their honest enterprises...
...been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents to take temporary jobs in industry...