Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge citizens, completely indifferent both to the Communist Manifesto or to a discordant trie yodelling "Show Me the Way to Go Home," have a marked preference for the verses of T. S. Eliot. Perhaps it's the College influence.
Please don't let it be like the other weeks. It had almost been a prayer how funny, thought Vag. I'm going to be indifferent. Indifferent is as handsome does and good lord at least the band is better, isn't it George! He wished he hadn't said...
Vag excused himself for a minute and went out to shiver in the cold air. The music was fainter, but still you could hear it from the upstairs window. I hate dancing, Vag thought and thought over and over. Do girls really like it? Oh, here she was she followed...
Anger in Nanking. After Wedemeyer's blast at the Chinese Government (TIME, Sept. 15), many Chinese thought they knew just what to expect. Wrote Fei Hsiao-tung, sociology professor and one of China's sharpest political commentators: "We must not be offended because the U.S. has become indifferent...
As U.S. designers fell to this job with a will, they were ably abetted by Paris. There the brasshats of fashion, indifferent as always to the wishes or even the shapes of their subjects, panted to regain the attention, if not the prestige, which they had lost during the war...