Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to...
When he met the Americans, he scorned them for their casualness. Their uniforms were "like golfing clothes," they chewed gum "like ruminating animals" and, worst of all German sins, they were "indifferent to their victory."
(3 of 10) a complete loser; for him, prison is synonymous with poorhouse. Already angry at life's winners, he becomes even more insensitive to others in a doomed universe whose motto is "Do your own time": trust no one, freeze your mind, be indifferent. Unequipped for normal society, he...
That kind of flair and determination came late to him. Clouded by his father's shadow, he was an indifferent student. He admits now that he never tried hard because he feared that failure "would be a traumatic experience."
It is a commonplace among policemen these days to complain that the public is too indifferent about the recent wave of officers killed by snipers and ambushers. Cleveland's men in blue found out otherwise last week. After the unprovoked killing of Patrolman Joseph Tracz, the Cleveland chapter of...