Word: callousness
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Most Spanish graveyards are places of desolation and decay presided over by gravediggers so thieving and callous that relations often slash the clothes of the dead to keep their bodies from being stripped. At best, the family of Paula Pilar Magan could expect nothing but the hasty dumping of a box into a hole...
...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
Though time & place are deliberately not specified in Camino Real, they seem modern and Mexican. The scene is a fortresslike, claustrophobic public square featuring such darkly symbolic places as a luxury hotel, a flophouse, a brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love...
...Commission hearings on waterfront corruption one afternoon last week. It was a most dramatic moment. As "Lord High Executioner" of Brooklyn's old Murder, Inc., Anastasia superintended the assassinations of 63 of his fellowmen; as a tycoon of crime, today he is the very epitome of these violent, callous and imperious criminals whose word is the only law on Greater New York's 770 miles of piers...
Critics discussing the plight of poetry in the U.S. are prone to speak of the impatience of readers jaded by too much news and too much entertainment, of the callous indifference of editors, and of the fact that a lot of people who jump on modern poetry as obscure would also have trouble with Milton. Perhaps so. But a hard look at Poetry suggests that it is not only the philistinism of the public that is to blame. Poets can get away with many things, but not with dullness...