Word: callouses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their indiscriminate slaughter, it seems clear that President Nixon and his top advisors either think that the South can survive as an independent entity, or they are committed to postponing its collapse until after the election. It if is the former, they are fools: if the latter, the most callous sort of political opportunists...
...HARVARD Corporation's decision to retain its stock in the Gulf Oil Company, delivered in defiance of black leaders both here at Harvard and throughout the country, illustrates the University's callous disregard for the lives of black people in Angola...
...acts of protest and civil disobedience against the federal government, and the support of anti-war candidates, are the only valid actions against the war. Continuing support of actions already initiated, like the takeover of Massachusetts Hall by PALC and Afro, which turned public opinion against the Corporation's callous irresponsibility, are similarly valid. At the same time, any attempts to direct the all-too-limited amount of political determination into purely local confrontations are sure to diminish the meeting of the long-term goals of Africans and Asians...
...have appeared in recent movies have all been presented as evil. Michael York in Something for Everyone and Terence Stamp in Feorema and Entertaining Mr. Sloan victimize the families they visit with their domineering sexual attractiveness, while Murray Head's characterization in Sunday Bloody Sunday is that of a callous and irresponsible drifter. Where movies have never experienced many qualms in dismissing homosexuality by equating it with impotency (except, of course, when a child entered the room--for only then did the homosexual become a clear and present danger), when dealing with bisexuality, they retreat in fear. Since...
...quite reconcile herself to the hockey world, either. No one connected with the game seems to realize that all that violence is sickening, least of all Duke. And the longer you stay with hockey, the more callous, more insensitive it makes you. One afternoon, while Billy and Sherri are frolicking in the woods, he sends his dog after a rabbit, and expresses no remorse when the smaller animal is killed. Things get rocky from that point on, and when the Maple Leafs' general manager tells Sherri that in hockey, "everything has to be put in its proper place, even...