Word: calloused
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...banished the 480 pages of typescript to the back of his rusting Chevy and began a personal odyssey in search of material. But the people he meets are tedious, and by this time his reflections have become predictable. If anything, Exley seems too detached, to the point of being callous...
...Godtrey that his idea of how to cure Depression America's woes is to build nightclubs staffed by the unemployed, the letdown we feel is the characteristic failure of. Hollywood comedies about social problems. Throughout the film. Powell describes the injustice of a system which permits the callous extravagance of the society families he serves as butler, yet when the smoke clears the flowing champagne on Sulton Place drowns the social' criticism which gave the film its force. In the late Vittorio De Sica's final film. A Brief Vacation, we experience a similar tantalizing disappointment, as the director offers...
...what about men? The Marias make a rather half-hearted attempt to present their side of the story, but all the male characters fall into the pattern of the callous and insensitive French cavalier with a monotonous sameness. There is one exception--a sympathetic cousin whom Mariana calls her "guardian angel"--but he proves to be an unstable character and, like her, commits suicide...
...least, neutral descriptions of occupational roles. Unfortunately, administrators and bureaucrats have fallen into general disrepute of late (much of it well-deserved), and the term "bureaucrat" has become positively pejorative. In the post-Watergate era, it is easy to understand why the image of the self-serving, over-cautious, callous, and arrogant bureaucrat has become so widespread, and so easily applicable to almost any large administrative organization. But the image of the self-serving, double-talking administrator has been so universally applied around Harvard that many administration figures wonder whether or not the undergraduate population even tries to find...
Rosenthal's explanation violated another credo of responsible journalists: that a newspaper should disclose the news it has and let others worry about the consequences. It is a journalistic ethic that might seem callous and irresponsible at first, but it makes great sense, because an editor can never know what the effects of disclosure will be. So why should he trap a good story in the morass of worthless hypotheses? The Times should know this more than other papers, because it was once badly burned by sitting with great civic pompousity on a piece of hot news...