Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The election was poorly administered. One candidate actually helped supervise the counting; the fact that some ballots were improperly marked and thus void was not discovered for a full day after the results were announced; candidates were allowed to review the honesty of the count, but disinterested parties were not...
The result, said Berlin, is that scholars and intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very...
By week's end, two powerful voices joined the counterattack. "Teachers are being intimidated," said the national Phi Beta Kappa society, "and students are being led to believe that colleges dare no longer engage in the disinterested pursuit of truth." The society warned local chapters to resist "such emotional...
The Senators sat up and took notice; Airman Rickenbacker made the businesslike kind of sense they wanted to hear. Next day, he followed up his free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines...
The North Atlantic Treaty became public last week. It was greeted in the U.S. by what, considering the immensity of the commitment, seemed almost a disinterested silence.