Word: calloused
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Your cover phrase "The Population Curse" is insensitive and callous. People should never be viewed as a curse...
...life style in general to try to determine him so seemingly shocking an occurrence--a professor coercing a student with the use of sexual pressure--can in fact be so pervasive. As Dzeich and Weiner understand, it is not enough simply to cry. "Faculty harassers are evil, universities are callous--this must be stopped!" One must try to root out the problem through understanding...
...principal organizers of the "Encampment for Divestiture" and the "Rally for Divestment." I was very disturbed by the remarks of Peter J. Howe in the editorial entitled "Divestiture Follies." They demonstrate a callous disregard of the efforts of student activism and, more importantly, a fundamental ignorance of the issues surrounding divestiture...
Unfortunately, the difficulty of helping hungry people on an individual level all too often leads to a callous unwillingness to deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come...
Harmony is the wan hope of age, the last dream to which it may reasonably aspire. Virtuosity is callow youth's callous expectation, the ambition toward which its bursting energy and blustering strength heedlessly compel it. That is why, dearly as they may love their offspring, parents of prodigies are so happy to see them off to college and career. May they achieve their hearts' desires - but please, God, on their own time...