Word: callouses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adults who could not protect another child from death; now, thinking of her own daughters and a narrow escape, she hopes that she and her husband will "be forgiven, in time, for everything that had first to be seen and condemned by those children: whatever was flippant, arbitrary, careless, callous -- all our natural, and particular, mistakes...
...more than fireworks bind the Harvard of 1986 with the Harvard of 2136. The callous ambition of the student body and the callous indifference of University faculty and administrators of 150 years ago remain...
Reagan inhabits his moment in America with a triumphant (some might say careless or even callous) ease that is astonishing and even mysterious. It is an afternoon in early summer. The sky is a splendid blue, with great cotton clouds floating across it and the grass a vivid field of green. There are noises of celebration in the crowd. Tonight there will be fireworks...
...week last January, a pack of reporters from every major media outlet descended upon Cambridge and put the University's seemingly callous action in America's spotlight. Dozens of phone calls from every state in the Union flooded the Harvard News Office in what turned out to be a public relations fiasco of national proportions...
...Where callous cows sing dirty ditties...