Word: callously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MORE callous than the arguments against action is the implied elitism behind such criticism as: "large groups of students behaved like common, uninformed hecklers. "Common? Moi? Yes, Harvard is to some extent an Ivory Tower, and reasoned debate should flourish here if nowhere else, but reasoned debate can go on ad infinitum, even ad nauseam, while "common" people die, watch Marines invade their country, and have their backyards dug up for missile silos. What is called for is reasoned debate and militancy--militancy which, like that of the hecklers, still allows reasoned debate to continue...
...exercise [his] constitutional power of appointment." But Senators of both parties were outraged. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen fulminated that "the President's action is a form of tyranny, the tyranny to put down voices of dissent." Maryland Republican Charles Mathias professed himself "shocked" by Reagan's "callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said he: "The President's action was really an effort to bludgeon the Civil Rights Commission...
...title, told us that Poland was in Russia's sphere of influence and so we should not worry about it, and that Afghanistan was really not worth mentioning, since it might pact Third World and Eastern Bloc representatives to the Council. Now we have a Crimson editorial blaming the callous destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on the continuing atmosphere of distrust brought on by the Cold War, and an article by Errol T. Louis which accepts as gospel Russian propaganda claiming the Korean jetliner was really a spy plane, and thus Korea, and by extension...
...operation, so why not this?) plane intruding in its airspace, have refused to admit error or to apologize, and have brazenly stated that they would (and will) do so again. This is the truly repugnant aspect of the entire affair--the utter barbarity of the Russians, the callous disregard for human life...
...life, she edited scholarly publications, and while she had no real interest in the discipline, regarded its practitioners as endlessly amusing. A Few Green Leaves is structured like an anthropological study of a small English village. Less Than Angels is a particularly astringent account of social scientists: when its callous hero Tom cannot decide between an excellent woman and her young rival, he flies off to Africa (no escape there, however: Pym kills him off in the bush). A colleague named Lydgate sits in his study intending to do important work but ends by poring over wine lists...