Word: callously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Klan intimidation earlier this year forced cancellation of a speech on racial peace by former Little Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...
This venture begins in appropriately gruesome style with the beheading of the late Sax Rohmer's durable archcriminal, who has already survived the perils of 14 books and four feature films, the last made in 1932. As Fu, "cool, callous, brilliant . . . the most evil and dangerous man in the world," Britain's Christopher Lee slithers in the footsteps of Warner Oland and Boris Karloff, and despite a vaguely Oxonian Oriental accent he doesn't look a hair sillier than his predecessors...
...greenly, are no lovelier here than any other place. Urine long gone dead in hall-ways stinks as bad on Columbus Avenue as it does up two blocks from Charles Street or down two blocks from Harvard Square. And women on the corner, winos in the doorways, cops with callous faces and hardened eyes, do not summon up for me, as they do for some poetical white spirits, any vast romantic phantasies of luscious and previously unknown satisfactions...
...attractive women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...
...poverty program reminded him of a cartoon he had seen of "two Cosa Nostra types sitting on a park bench." The caption was "Who do you think stands to score big from the War on Poverty?" Rusher smiled again. "Now don't write that to make me sound callous...