Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly the President's assassination jolted the overwhelming majority of Dallas citizens just as it did the rest of the nation. But the reactions of a few belied the deep strain of callous self interest that resides not far below the city's civic league surface. An audience of 1800 packed the Dallas City Opera the evening after the assassination to to applaud Verdi's Masked Ball. Citizens held indignant meetings to decide what to do about ministers who issued malicious statements about the city. The school board fired--later rehired--the teacher who reported her student's applause...
...emphasis on non-exploitation, Goodman is astonishingly callous in his lack of concern for the plight of the unloved, illegitimate child and the unwed mother. Of course society is wrong to regard them as something dirty, but in his desire for social revolution Goodman loses compassion for those who must suffer in its wake. And in spite of his insistence on interpersonal values, he speakes as if his major responsibility in marriage is to inconvenience himself by "making it home in time for five thirty dinner every night...
...Williamson, the Bible points out other sins that led to Sodom's destruction, such as idolatry and refusal to "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49). "The correct understanding of Sodom," he says, "is of a proud, self-satisfied, materialist society, acting with callous inhospitality to man and at the same time rejecting the true worship...
...postures and drawls through airy marvels of sinister affectation. He is the devil in drag. His counterpart Ann Timmons (Joanna Vogel) coldly pursues men. She snatches up innocent victims like Achilles, inflames them and casts them off. Ann is supposed to be bitchy, but Miss Vogel is too callous to make me believe she could arouse anyone's lust. Peter Gaylord (Peter Hoagland) loves Ann Timmons and wants to take her away from the filth of Cambridge to Cape Cod, where he teaches high school. He stands for the home truths: love over lust, sincerity in place of affectation...
...Matter of Conscience. The French are far more deeply concerned by the regime's callous, wholesale violation of its pledge to take no reprisals against the harkis, as Algerians call the 100,000 Moslem auxiliaries who fought against the F.L.N. in the French army. "Without this guarantee," says an angry French diplomat, "there would have been no Evian agreements." Only 5,000 harkis emigrated to France after independence. But of those who remained, many thousands have been shipped off to forced labor camps. Some were put to work clearing minefields-by being forced to walk across them. Many others...