Word: calloused
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...purple canyon wall opposite her and now she feels the moment of the mystery approaching. Her arms are heavy ropes holding to her a brown young brave, his electric hair bound by a vinyl red band. An arrow-bodied boy with a sweet thing not yet grown callous with age and hard use. He is astonished and shaking, his body shimmers in sweat...
...members of SLOP, protest and hope some administrator tries to help. The great majority of the administrators I have encountered are eager to help. Frequently they too are defeated by financial restrictions, bureaucratic mazes, and encrusted tradition. There remains, of course, the occasional administrator who exhibits the dense and callous reaction one presented to Mr. Epps: "It's their tuition-If that's what they want to do with it, that...
...live in universities... should turn on them as the enemy. reviling them as if they were the creators and sustainers of what they call an obscene industrial-military complex and an abhorrent way of life ... Harvard has never appeared wicked to me and does not now- nor uninformed, nor callous nor indifferent...
...been launched in politics in 1946 by Newark Democratic Boss Dennis Carey, who was in search of a congressional candidate. "I figured," Carey once said, "that I needed a guinea with a name that long." Addonizio, a much-decorated war hero, met Carey's callous specifications. Carey delivered the nomination, and Addonizio edged out the incumbent Congressman by fewer than 1,800 votes. En route to an eighth congressional term, Addonizio amazed friends and opponents when he gave up his safe seat in the House to make the race for mayor of Newark. He won, mocking an opponent...
Indian history is notoriously full of broken covenants, callous horse soldiers and greedy land-grabbers-all encouraged from Washington. Though Vine Deloria dwells on such things with savage wit in this remarkable book, he is more bitterly concerned with the recent past and the havoc worked among the long-suffering tribes in the past 20 years by less officially baneful agencies-compassionate missionaries, humane anthropologists and liberal bureaucrats. Their doings, says Deloria, justifiably provoked a Sioux leader to tell a congressional hearing that what the Indians really want is "a leave-us-alone...