Word: callousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vignettes may be understandably mislabeled as callous, since they boldly tackle sensitive issues, presenting a brutally satirical view of what Director Kia D. Alexander ’08 calls “black oppression stereotypes through time...
...calmly through the exit of the local polling station to a waiting car. The bleeding 54-year-old former physician and father of two, who had just voted in Italy's center-left coalition primary, died minutes later at the same Locri hospital where he had once worked. The callous nature of the murder marked it unmistakably as a professional hit by Calabria's powerful crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta, a word of Greek origin meaning courage or loyalty. The message was just as clear: We're in charge here. The gangland execution of the respected Vice President of the Regional...
...deserves high praise. His is the first voice out of Harvard to speak out and question why the University with its billions is being miserly in donating to the millions left homeless. Such an uncharitable attitude from the world’s richest academic institution only betrays a callous bias against people far off and thus out of Harvard’s radar...
...already incapacitated or the volunteers themselves could sustain injuries which impede a safe intervention and rescue.” Understandably, the AEO wants to minimize injuries in any emergency situation. In helping a disabled classmate, students could potentially hurt themselves or their classmate irreparably. Though it might sound callous, Harvard legally must urge students not to endanger themselves. How to behave in an emergency often comes down to choice. And there will never be a clear cut decision to make in a situation where a non-disabled classmate has the option to help or leave behind his disabled friend...
...Worlds”—Steven Spielberg, so knowledgeable about the “human condition,” our callous inner nature, and how to make gajillions and quadrazillions of dollars, knows about powerful questions. He’s asked us about slavery, the Holocaust, being kind to space aliens, and most importantly about the very fabric of our lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones” DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster...