Word: callousness
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...bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped by thorns, drenched by tropical storms, lashed by callous or vicious agents, cheated at the scales when they brought in their rubber, and kept in perpetual slavery by a "rubber tax" which had to be worked out in default of the money that no Congo Negro possessed. In his fascinating yarn Herr Bauer has made the most...
...first Emperor that pops to mind, readers of Negro newsorgans are apt to answer not with silky-bearded Emperor George I* of India but with kinky-haired Emperor Haile Selassie I of Abyssinia, the last independent native monarchy in Africa. Last week Negroes were pained and shocked by the callous indifference of most whites to Abyssinia's present life-&-death crisis. Mourned Baltimore's Afro-American, "Even enlightened Americans like Walter Lippmann approve the attempt of Italy to steal Abyssinia's lands, on the theory that it is better to pacify Mussolini in Africa than to have...
...justification of this conference, the Boston Student Committee Against War has issued this statement: "It is no longer necessary to convince people of the imminence of a second world war. The danger is rather that we have become so used to the idea as to be callous to it. The purpose of actions such as the Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
...refused, Eliot House has harbored a certain sense of inferiority. Witness the incident of a notice posted day before yesterday, announcing a lecture by Professor "Karl" Schumpeter. Around the name "Karl", some eagle-eyed resident drew a little circle, with the cryptic comment: "Huh?" A confident Dunster or a callous Lowell would not have minded, but at Eliot House they are sensitive about such things. The notice was taken down yesterday and a new one posted: "Professor Josef Schumpeter...