Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt many readers will be indignantly critical of your callous judgment that U.S. casualties in Viet Nam are "tolerable." I do not belittle the personal tragedy that each of these casualties surely means, but I think collectively they are far more tolerable than the 40,000 traffic deaths per year in the U.S., the 20,000 suicides, the 9,500 homicides, or the thousands of deaths from acute alcoholism...
Spade is the quintessence of the heartless pragmatist--the sardonic, self-interested loner who rolls his own cigarettes, and who just happens to operate within the limits of the law most of the time because he knows he's better off that way. He's so callous he hardly reacts when he hears his partner has been murdered. He doesn't bother to look at the body. Asked if the partner were married, he replies curtly, "Yeah, with 10,000 insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him." His only immediate concerns after the murder...
Such chilling scenes have built up a widespread misunderstanding of Patton that not even eight earlier and more friendly biographies could knock down. As this ninth attempt makes clear, the impression that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...
Citing "the callous disregard for human life that has been shown by terrorists up and down the country," British Governor Sir Richard Luyt called in 5,000 Tommies to quell the riots and assumed emergency rule-in effect stripping Jagan of power. He also ordered Guianese to turn in all private firearms except licensed pistols, under pain of life imprisonment plus flogging. Through it all, the Colonial Office in London stood firm by the election schedule, while the sugar companies stuck with the established union...
...wife's death at the hands of his paranoid father, whom LeBlanche himself is forced to kill in turn. With this amalgam of somber tragedy and high humor, Author Cuomo probes an ancient and great theme: the growth of a man in the teeth of fortune's callous blows. Result: a variegated, sometimes unusual, always hearty novel...