Word: callousness
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...building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap . . . The door...
...session took place just one day before the National Urban League released its annual survey. "The State of Black America," which criticizes Reagan's policy toward Blacks as "callous...
...against her; even in 1982, after all, a poll of Good Housekeeping readers found that Nancy Reagan was the second most admired woman. Even more important to the return of her equanimity, the high-pitched criticism quieted: the recession was ending and her posh style no longer seemed so callous. But the First Lady also changed tack, remodeling her public persona. The Reagans still see Sinatra and invite the likes of Dynasty Star Joan Collins to state dinners, but Zipkin and his dandyish ilk have been much less in evidence. The President's wife has devoted more time and effort...
GOING TO A STRINDBERG play is always a theatrical gamble. Depending upon your constitution, you run the risk of overlooking the playwright's suggestion of religious redemption and emerging frustrated by the callous and fatalistic character nature seems to take. Moreover, depending upon the actors, you run the additional risk of getting depressed, and getting depressed slowly. Consequently, producers betting on a sure fire success tend to be wary of a Strindberg production...
...environment; students cannot learn and are deprived of staples of social life such as their dining halls. Whatever their views of the union, they all want a settlement. But Yale's repeated rebuffs of the academic comnmunity's pleas for compromise have alienated even staunch conservatives. The school's callous attitude during this last round of negotiations has squelched the hopes of the students who led the three-day boycott of classes to pressure the university back to the table. In those talks, the union demand dropped from a $40 million cumulative raise over the next three years...