Word: disinterested
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...feeling of disinterest that has often existed between the Radcliffe club and the University organizations was dispelled as members finally got acquainted at a tea dance given by Idler on Thursday, October...
Until now, Congress has initiated all amendments to the Constitution. But sponsors of this amendment have purposely chosen the harder way--going through the state legislatures--because of public disinterest in State House affairs. With the least amount of publicity, sponsors hope to nudge the amendment through the necessary number of state legislatures and present the public with a fait accompli. In many cases, legislators have been as hoodwinked as their constituents. In Kentucky, the bill was voted before it ever appeared on the legislative docket. In Massachusetts it passed unnoticed in the last minute rush...
This statement seems typical of the city administration's disinterest in the University's over-night parking problem. Through the existing dilemma has been under "discussion" at City Hall for the past five weeks, students' cars continue to be ticketed and even towed away for illegal parking, when no legal spaces exist. Some officials, nevertheless, are "altting on" the only constructive measure which has been proposed in the last year to alleviate the overcrowded conditions...
...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
...Your Nov. 15, 1948 story interpreting the election returns has been worrying me for almost three years. Usually accurate, you seem to have missed entirely one big reason why many voters stayed away from the polls. It was not disinterest, but rather lack of a choice of candidates. We (and you would be surprised at how many there were of us) simply did not want to feel responsible in any part for the election of either Truman or Dewey...