Word: callouses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stark contrast, he continued, "the so-called environmentalist movement" is endemic to rich nations, where the most rabid crusaders tend to be well-fed urbanites who sample the delights of nature on weekend outings. Borlaug feels that campaigns to ban agricultural chemicals-starting with DDT-reveal a callous misordering of social priorities. If such bans become law, he warned, "then the world will be doomed not by chemical poisoning but by starvation...
Suffering Catfish Americans may feel sentimental about animals, but compared to the mother country, the U.S. is downright callous. Last week London's Hay ward Gallery opened an exhibition of eleven California artists' work-sculptures, constructions, video tapes. There were also six 20-ft.-long water tanks that La Jolla Artist Newton Harrison called Portable Fish Farm...
...sorely split in trying to decide just why it happened and who was to blame. Since most of Attica's prisoners are black, many blacks saw the event as yet another manifestation of America's deep-rooted racism. Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson termed it "one of the most callous and blatantly repressive acts ever carried out by a supposedly civilized society." White liberals ?and not liberals alone?interpreted Attica as, at the very least, a measure of the bankruptcy of the U.S. prison system. Yet many if not most Americans seemed to feel that the attack was legally...
Selfish and Callous. At a press conference, Giants' President Wellington Mara piously insisted that he was moving to New Jersey only to provide Giant fans with a better place to watch the team play. Clearly, though, a main motive was money. The Mara family has run the Giants on a shoestring since Wellington's father Tim bought the New York franchise in 1925 for a piddling $500. Said Tim at the time: "A New York franchise in anything is worth that much, including one for shining shoes." It certainly was. Though the football Giants were subtenants all their...
...York's official reaction was immediate, justifiable anger. Mayor John Lindsay attacked the Giants' ownership as "selfish, callous and ungrateful"; he insisted he would pursue the city's present plan to buy Yankee Stadium and renovate it for $24 million, in order to keep at least the Yankees in town. Lindsay also said that he would seek another National Football League franchise to cohabit with the Yankees, but the odds on that seemed slim. For one thing, unanimous approval of all N.F.L. teams is required to shift one franchise into the home territory of another, and both...