Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill McCurdy and Jim Tuppeny, the cross country coaches for Harvard and Penn, are not bosom buddies. To say they are enemies is to exaggerate. Nor are they indifferent to each other, though they seem to pretend that they are. I guess it is most accurate to say that they...
In theory, the New York Film Festival is a confluence of fresh works by prodigies; in practice, it has been a babel of indifferent talents redeemed only occasionally by a feature of originality. The festival officers are at once innocent and culpable. Many Eastern European pictures were unavailable; American companies...
Guardian Role. A factor in many of the "accidents" was a maternal ambivalence toward the burned child. Of the 46 mothers involved in the study, 44 were preoccupied at the time with some "unresolved problem" that tended to distract them from their guardian role. Nineteen, for instance, confessed that they...
Last week the King's luck held, but barely. Friction between cocky Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and army troops loyal to Hussein erupted into three days of bloody warfare. The King's government-and the King as well -nearly became casualties of the battle. Hundreds died, including a...
Forster is, in fact, a very unsatisfactory fellow when it comes to hortatory confrontations between vice and virtue. As simple-minded symbols on any side of any argument, his characters are simply not to be relied upon. For one thing, he often kills them off highhandedly. For another, they change...