Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central government to cope with problems that affect all citizens and states. But equally obvious, Washington needs a new tactic: it must encourage Americans to do for themselves what they could do if they tried to. This idea has often been used as a sort of shorthand for the callous notion that all public assistance is a coddling waste; it does not mean that in the present context. What is at stake now is the freeing of the individual from unnecessary dependence on a remote bureaucratic apparatus or the liberation of local communities from the notion that they cannot help...
...worshipful fans while a 55-piece band blasted out greetings. Ginger was en route to London for a year's run in Mame. When someone mentioned her $600,000 contract to play Auntie, she sounded as if she already had the part down pat. "My attitude is somewhat callous to the sound of large amounts...
...rather callous to talk about theatre (or anything, for that matter) in terms of numbers, but in a way this production lends itself to such treatment. Director Christopher Arnold has been pretty callous himself in his handling of these two fine Israel Horovitz plays, and I am still in the mood of the evening he created...
...pragmatic Governor, he has shown skill in administration and a taste for innovation. His proposal for uniform national-welfare payments certainly deserves consideration as a practical means of stopping the flow of rural poor, white as well as black, to big-city slums. While he is appallingly insensitive and callous, few can deny Agnew's personal decency and quiet sense of humor. Most independent observers agree that the New York Times made much out of little in charging that his Maryland financial dealings made him unfit for the Vice-Presidency. And despite his harsh indictments of black rioters and looters...
...there is a curious commentary upon man's inhumanity to man whenever white Americans deliver that callous insult to the Negro's longstanding injury by questioning the validity of his chauvinistic or racist mode of retrieving his blackness. No doubt the black chauvinist mode of self-renewal is as mundane and vile as any other chauvinism at any period of human history. But it is no less an historically valid expression, for the history of white America's relationship to the Negro provided few meaningful alternatives...