Word: unconcernedly
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What Next? Now the military chiefs could get down to the task of running the country. Announcing a new, isman Cabinet of army, navy, air force and marine officers, General Chang became Premier and Defense Minister as well. The junta was opposed by no one; with utter apathy or unconcern, the Korean people watched in silence...
...achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems and dangerous situations by displaying massive unconcern, meanwhile hoping that time will remove the difficulties and denature the dangers...
Watching all this from the Tribune Tower, the Trib's editors pretend unconcern. "He's got a binful of money," says Trib Editor Don Maxwell, "and so do we. We don't feel any challenge." But if the Tribune doesn't, the Sun-Times's Marshall Field Jr. does. Said he last week: "As of right now, we're in an expansion period...
...consists rather of "a naive and energetic thrust forward from an idea sincerely conceived. From Luther's day onward, simplicity of soul and freedom of the spirit were always characteristic of the churches of the Reform." Liberal or fundamentalist, the Protestant derives an "enthusiastic assuredness" from his "unconcern for tradition." The virtue of this attitude is the tolerance of diversity. But this tolerance is paradoxical. The Protestant "is tolerant of anything but intolerance, and the insistence that the Christian faith must be doctrinally one is for him intolerance." The Protestant is not necessarily annoyed by specific Catholic doctrines...