Word: callousness
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EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, the Reagan Administration lets its guard down long enough to reveal its true political colors and the sight is rarely pretty. Last week's disclosure that the White House was considering a study proposal to tax unemployment benefits revealed not only dubious economic thinking but callous political style as well...
...clubby spirit of the 40s or 50s has changed to what many perceive as jet-set elitism. Although they have always solicited work from any member of the Harvard community. Advocate editors have sometimes seemed like what editor Chris Caldwell '83 calls a "collection of cocaine snorting, cavalier, callous glitterati." As an arts magazine, the Advocate has appelned to the avant garde in some people, and thus scared others away...
...were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, when I.R.A. terrorists blew up his fishing boat in August 1979. Said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "These callous and cowardly crimes have been committed by evil, brutal men who know nothing of democracy. We shall not rest until they are brought to justice...
Skeptics scent a strong whiff of callous political cynicism and even hypocrisy in all this agitation, an effort by Congress and the White House to have it both ways. Only a month ago, Congress passed a budget resolution that would allow for a record-shattering deficit of $103.9 billion in fiscal 1983. Even that is less red ink than would have flowed from the budget proposals that Reagan presented in February. The balanced-budget amendment allows Congress and the President to reassure voters that they are, at bottom, all for fiscal responsibility. Says Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts...
...that the actor dwelt in a hell of insecurity that was utterly incompatible with the cool, confident screen image. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford establishes that her poised mother Joan occasionally became a hysterical, sadistic monster at home. Bing Crosby, the easygoing crooner of love ballads, behaved like a callous heel toward his first wife Dixie, if Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man is to be believed...