Word: callousness
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...callous indifference to even rudimentary human needs prevails in both places. Day-to-day management is vested in an informal conspiracy between wardens and toughs who have risen to the top of prison society solely on the basis of physical prowess. Discipline is maintained through beatings, buggery and other less colorful forms of brutality. In Scum, alas, no redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand...
...Sheer bureaucratic indifference" and the Government's "callous and lackadaisical attitude" were to blame, said the court, which offered no views on the correctness of the murder verdict. Soon after the 1970 slayings, the Army abandoned its plans to prosecute, apparently because of a bungled investigation that spoiled key evidence. In 1972 the Justice Department took on the case, but committed a crucial error by taking more than two years to convene a grand jury to hear the evidence. The trial did not start until last July...
...cultures he knew little about, sifting through thousands of pages of documents, looking for something but not knowing what he would find. He started with the people in the American embassy in Phnom Penh, amazed by the "unanimity with which they spoke" and with what they saw as "callous disregard" for human lives. Somebody in Washington was watching the CIA reports that showed North Vietnamese troops hiding in sanctuaries on the Cambodian side of the border. Somebody decided that the best way to flush the North Vietnamese out was to destroy the sanctuaries. But, as Shawcross demonstrates in Sideshow, they...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Harkensson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
REPORTING for The Crimson, I have spoken with many administrators who are normally inaccessible, and I do not believe they are morally callous. But they are blinded by their own contempt for students--an attitude they may not acknowledge but is nonetheless pervasive. I sense this contempt in their scorn for idealistic political positions, the anger with which moral questions about University conduct are greeted, the condescension with which they answer student concerns. One administrator once told me he could not respect student activists because they always ended up as lawyers or businessmen, joining the system they vowed to break...