Word: callously
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...this fall with House masters, faculty members, administrators, athletic coaches and students to discuss racial problems on campus. S. Allen Counter Jr., associate professor of Biology, said that in the two months since he became head of the foundation, many minority students have complained to him about "insensitive" and "callous" House masters, "disrespectful" faculty members, and "subtle" racism on athletic teams. Many of the foundation's meetings and activities this fall will focus on the Houses, Counter said, adding that some Houses "by their very atmosphere and reputation seem to stimulate or create alienation on the part of minorities...
...lunch programs that would have classified catsup as a vegetable. The resulting furor forced the Administration into a hasty and embarrassing announcement that the rules were being recalled for redrafting. Even so, they remain in many minds a symbol of what critics see as the Reagan team's callous indifference to the poor...
...Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress?and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate American politics...
...books on Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bishop offers some inside glimpses: J.F.K. changing clothes from the skin out five times a day. L.B.J. inviting Bishop for a shower-side interview and then going to hilarious lengths to conceal his private parts, the callous behavior of the white medical examiners who conducted the autopsy on Martin Luther King's body...
...health. It was also there that he started working on his detective stories--the most famous of which, the Continental Op stories--were to make him a wealthy and famous man. The Continental Op, of course had all the qualities of a Great American Hero. He was cynical, callous, and streetwise. He was always making seedy jokes, but he harbored the heart of the romantic. Hammett's Op never had a name, but you could never forget the voice. In some ways he was the last bastion of defense for the innocent. Beautiful women, chivalrous old men--they all lived...