Word: disinteresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
Pretexts to Stay. Talking to friends, Churchill has explained that he has stayed on largely in hopes of a cosmic conference, which would enable him to climax his career as a peacemaker. But Eisenhower's disinterest, and Malenkov's fall, have made such a parley increasingly unlikely. The Yalta documents are not calculated to increase U.S. desire for more of such personal diplomacy...
...graduate level is the University of Tennessee, where few students are "violently opposed to desegregation in any way." Students showed last spring "to the booming majority of four to one" that they favor the Supreme Court's ruling. Again, the editor urges slow integration in the face of the disinterest of most students. "Perhaps," he says, "this is just the lull before the storm...
...problem, for the lack of a strong, non-Communist student organization keeps the democrats walking around in groups of two or three. And the attitude of many top government officials is to ignore the problem. As one top Congress Party officer said, "Oh, they're just students." This widespread disinterest, combined with historic opposition to the British, makes many students despair with the government, a dangerous trend in such a young nation...
...main, however, the white students have maintained a detachment bordering on disinterest. It is noteworthy that there is virtually no evidence that Communist or Communist-front groups have tried to exploit the more sensitive aspects of the situation on any campus . . . Nowhere has the admission of Negroes produced anything like a boycott, nor has it been made a prime political issue...