Word: unconcerns
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...tough position," says he "expected much more sensitivity" from the New York paper. That expectation is hardly an unreasonable one. It is clear that Jones is right about what the Hunt profile really indicates. The memo is more evidence of the Nixon administration's perversity, its unconcern for the processes of justice, its self-conscious and evil willingness to stoop to the pernicious tactics of the red scare. The memo is evidence of a certain sickness of mind and of a cynicism that Nixon has based his entire career on. Because the memo is all of those things, The Times...
Uncontrolled growth in Hawaii has been accompanied by an apparent unconcern by federal officials in Washington. A Hawaiian living in the low-rent Palolo Valley district said last summer in a community meeting, "If we threaten to secede, Washington's response will be 'so What...
...Lofty Unconcern. Some of the impracticality of this august airport lounge is due to Mies' staff, who with the fervor of acolytes refused to "compromise" an inch on the maestro's plans. Hence the stiff lighting, the patchy services (such as an elevator too small for large-scale paintings) and, worst of all, the absence of any walls to hang pictures on. Three sides of the hall are glass; the fourth is an open internal balcony. Placing screen walls to carry paintings will be a headache for curators-especially since the Texas daylight, flooding through that glass acreage...
...short, it seems that Mies, like his opponent Frank Lloyd Wright in the snailly windings of the Guggenheim Museum, felt a lofty unconcern verging on arrogance toward the needs of arts other than his own. Every grand old man has a prescriptive right to his clichés. But few have exercised it with more ruthlessness than Mies van der Rohe in this, his last building...
...final problem, with roots outside the organization, lies in the nature of the bureaucracies with which PBH must deal. In some cases, professionals have been unabashedly hostile to PBH volunteers. Some volunteers have been frustrated not merely by other institutions' red tape and inefficiency but by their seeming unconcern...