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Perhaps one of the first and most important things we learn in life is the ability to shrug off that which is irremedial. On one extreme are the callous who can shrug off everything not in their game plan, and at the other extreme is Eugene lonesco, who seemingly can shrug off nothing at all. This quality is admirable as well as pathetic. Mass-murders, starvation, Marxists, Fascists and the followers of Sartre--I can gladly join lonesco in condemning them all. But his judgments become so obsessive and his attitude so hopeless that all he can end up doing...
...stark contrast, he continued, "the so-called environmentalist movement" is endemic to rich nations, where the most rabid crusaders tend to be well-fed urbanites who sample the delights of nature on weekend outings. Borlaug feels that campaigns to ban agricultural chemicals-starting with DDT-reveal a callous misordering of social priorities. If such bans become law, he warned, "then the world will be doomed not by chemical poisoning but by starvation...
Suffering Catfish Americans may feel sentimental about animals, but compared to the mother country, the U.S. is downright callous. Last week London's Hay ward Gallery opened an exhibition of eleven California artists' work-sculptures, constructions, video tapes. There were also six 20-ft.-long water tanks that La Jolla Artist Newton Harrison called Portable Fish Farm...
...sorely split in trying to decide just why it happened and who was to blame. Since most of Attica's prisoners are black, many blacks saw the event as yet another manifestation of America's deep-rooted racism. Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson termed it "one of the most callous and blatantly repressive acts ever carried out by a supposedly civilized society." White liberals ?and not liberals alone?interpreted Attica as, at the very least, a measure of the bankruptcy of the U.S. prison system. Yet many if not most Americans seemed to feel that the attack was legally...
...York's official reaction was immediate, justifiable anger. Mayor John Lindsay attacked the Giants' ownership as "selfish, callous and ungrateful"; he insisted he would pursue the city's present plan to buy Yankee Stadium and renovate it for $24 million, in order to keep at least the Yankees in town. Lindsay also said that he would seek another National Football League franchise to cohabit with the Yankees, but the odds on that seemed slim. For one thing, unanimous approval of all N.F.L. teams is required to shift one franchise into the home territory of another, and both...