Word: calloused
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...virtual ignorance of workers as a potential agent of social change-PL's ideological influence on that organization was constructive, as I said in my article. What I object to in PL is an obsession with its own organizational "purity" which results in non-cooperation with liberals and callous attacks on radicals...
...polemical style handicaps his logic, Brustein is making many good points. For one thing, he demonstrates graphically that much of the New Left is making use of exactly the tactics which have brought the old right such success-violence and terror, incredible self-righteousness and moral absolutism, and callous disregard for the rights of the individual. Brustein himself was forced to go into hiding last spring after repeated death threats. His classes were disrupted, his speeches heckled, his academic freedom essentially taken away in favor of mob rule...
Stone is often out of step with the old left, the new left and just plain liberals. He defended the Warren Commission Report, wrote a scathing report on Russia after a visit there in 1956, and lost Golda Meir's friendship by criticizing Israel's "callous attitude" toward Arab refugees and calling for reconciliation because "Israel's future depends on it." Overall, he feels "more loved than unloved." Loved or not, he is increasingly read. Circulation has climbed to a healthy and profitable 74,000, and the Bi-Weekly is included in a digest of 25 magazines...
...paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Chicago last month. Beeches said that some philosophers and theologians had termed his definition "callous," "unsavory," and "dangerous...
...face of this, Pakistan's government proved shockingly inept and many of its people cruelly callous. Four days after the cyclone hit, East Pakistan's governor, Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, was still downplaying the catastrophe, saying that "only" 16,000 had been killed. Though people were still reported floating alive offshore three days after the cyclone, the Pakistani navy was never ordered to search for survivors. Some 500,000 tons of grain were stockpiled in East Pakistan warehouses, but the 40-odd Pakistani army helicopters that could have airlifted them to the delta sat on their pads...