Word: callousness
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Never Greater. TIME's chief European correspondent William Rademaekers found the exorcist theory especially popular in Europe. There the extravagances of the past decade of America's tortured history-the political assassinations, the war in Viet Nam and the callous domestic politics of the Nixon years-are considered parts of a whole. The catharsis of Nixon's fall may allow the U.S. to return to a state of domestic tranquillity that would be reflected in a stable foreign policy. Europeans believe that now the American Congress will play a more important role in matters of foreign policy...
...decision against Mrs, Ware by both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts is callous and disgusting. And we wonder why so many revolutionary groups crop...
Kitchen did a good job, making it impossible for Harvard to ignore ACORN's request completely without looking callous. He organized petitions and letters and sent out information about the plant to everyone at Harvard who could possibly help ACORN. Students got interested in the issue, and several ecology and leftist groups urged Harvard to intervene. The matter eventually came into the hands of the ACSR...
...carefully draws parallels between the two sides in the conflict: the legendary barking deer of the title, for instance, was torn apart by an eagle and a tiger; and in two scenes that frame Rubin's main story, a North Vietnamese and an American colonel seek reassurance against overly callous commanding officers from photographs of their countries' faraway presidents. But Rubin's own account undercuts the parallelism--it's hard to imagine anyone saying of Lyndon Johnson, as he says of Ho Chi Minh, that "he had a sweet face... a lovable face." And by Rubin's own account--which...
...protagonists of Badlands -Kit Carruthers, 25, and Holly Sargis, 15-are casual about everything. Holly chats pleasantly with the victims before Kit executes them with the same care and concern he might have for a loose shoelace. Kit and Holly could be called callous except that both of them are far distant from any recognizable emotion at all. They are pathologically detached, macabre mutations of their time...