Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn perceives that an entire nation has been debased by four decades of totalitarianism far more oppressive than Czarist authoritarianism. Ordinary people have been rendered indifferent to injustice and pitiless toward the suffering of others. Among bureaucrats, the absolute exercise of power in the past continues to corrupt absolutely in...
For a brief period at the end of January, Bolivia broke the usual silence accorded it by the international press. A sudden decision by the right-wing military government to double the price of basic foodstuffs touched off an uprising by the peasants, who had found it difficult enough to...
Most performers would be elated, but Dylan, emerging from his isolation, is almost indifferent. "I try not to deal with the audience response," he said. "Too synthetic. Besides, it would be more than I could handle. I'm just basically interested in real things."
Appearing to speak at schools, Post staffers customarily receive standing ovations before they utter a word. Such celebrity for print journalists is unprecedented, but so is the story to which the Post led an indifferent nation. Thanks largely to the tireless digging of Watergate Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein...
After an indifferent start, the Skylab mission was also sailing smoothly. The astronauts had recovered from a bout of space sickness and were learning to live with a balky gyroscope, one of the three essential for maneuvering and maintaining the stability of the ship. One gyro had already broken down...