Word: callously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope all of this isn't mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't even meet the government's lax specifications, that "tragedy" is accorded the treatment the press gives to earthquakes and other natural disasters, but New York filmmakers aren't about to fly down to Kentucky or wherever and compose a film around it. Instead it's the front page one day, then...
...that we must remain forever weary with the sadness of death. But some of us. I think, cried out against the War and despised the callous brutality it required of its sons. What then is the meaning of the violence of the fifty or sixty seniors who bombarded their fellow classmates with food at the Union Thursday night? G-d knows it is not murder, but neither is it peace...
ONLY the Indochina War-described recently by a veteran as "the biggest nothing in history"-could have produced a book like James Park Sloan's War Games, a callous yet strangely sensitive autobiographical narrative of a young "tough-minded" soldier's attempts to cope with the brutally absurd...
RUSTY CALLEY stands convicted of wanton slaughter, but in his private life he is an unlikely villain. He is not a monster, not a callous warrior, not the tattooed caricature of the professional killer who does target practice on weekends and keeps a rifle mounted in the rear window of a pickup truck. In the evening, casually attired in blue jeans or bellbottoms, he could be any young American...
...virtual ignorance of workers as a potential agent of social change-PL's ideological influence on that organization was constructive, as I said in my article. What I object to in PL is an obsession with its own organizational "purity" which results in non-cooperation with liberals and callous attacks on radicals...