Word: callousness
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Last week, with callous contempt for the opinion of the neutralists he had assiduously wooed, Khrushchev tossed aside the mask of the smiling conciliator and spoke in the bullying accents of raw power...
Sinister Evil. Wagner wasted no time labeling the Levitt choice as "a gang-up of callous political bosses headed by Carmine De Sapio," warned of "sinister evil" if Levitt were elected. What the mayor forgot was that he himself had also been a De Sapio selection (TIME cover, Oct. 1, 1956) and that there has been a lot of evil in the city under Bumbling Bob. Wagner's administration, among its many scandals, has been graced by a city purchasing agent who milked the city of $500,000 through rigged bidding on rock salt. Currently the city is flinching...
Much of the film is shocking to a viewer unused to the apparent helplessness of the defendant in a French trial. Yet Director Clouzot's somewhat muddled J'Accuse is directed at more than the Napoleonic Code. It is intended to be a reproach to a callous society. But society will seize any excuse, even tepid acting, to avoid recognizing a reproach. And while Brigitte is an adequate comedienne, her dramatic acting is in the old cowboy tradition of two emotions-hat on and hat off. Except, of course, that with BB what comes...
...anti-Castro Cubans into the Bay of Pigs and thus bore a heavy responsibility for protecting their lives and assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro was as bad as he is, would be outraged by his callous offer to trade human lives for machines (see THE HEMISPHERE). And so, Kennedy called Eleanor Roosevelt and Reuther, both of whom were fairly obvious candidates for such a committee. Seeking a Republican, he tried a couple, finally landed Milton Eisenhower...
...Western country (New York City alone has more school administrators than all of France) and less national status (in Russia since Peter the Great, high school principals have had civil service rank matching army generals). The wonder is not that "every school system has its hard-faced bitches, its callous routiners, its cynical slobs, its politicians, its lazy and indifferent time servers.'' The striking thing is that "teachers by and large are good people...