Word: callously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indecency (yet the Beatles sneer, 'You say its-the institution/Well you know you better free your mind instead'). Racism is as much a problem in England as it in the United States, but the Beatles meekly accepted the grotesque MBE that was dangled before them by the peculiarly callous and avaricious British Environment...
...course, serious students of African politics do not find this callous concealment of the truth surprising. They know that the majority of the Biafran leaders currently parading the world as tribal heroes with synthetic slogans of autochthonous virtues are the same politicians who, in concert with other members of the old Nigerian political class, ruthlessly exploited the Nigerian masses without regard to ethnicity only a few years ago. These tribal patriarchs of today were the nationally convicted rogues of yesterday. When the Nigerian masses were revolting against their exploitation in pre-coup Nigeria, the foreign minister, an Ibo, was busy...
Commencement speakers generally applauded today's activist students for their idealism and courage. "You have reminded us that our powerful nation runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific...
Alluding to his harsh treatment of Bobby in recent months, including a brutal thrust in this month's Esquire, Murray Kempton was contrite. "Our politicians are just too vulnerable to be thought of in the old callous way," he wrote. "We must see them in life as we would in the shock of death when we would be conscious only of the good in them. The language of dismissal becomes horrible once you recognize the shadow of death over every public man. For I had forgotten, from being bitter about a temporary course of his, how much I liked...
Civilian Shields. In the fighting throughout the country, the Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...