Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, if what holds true for a generation also holds true for a university, Harvard will have earned itself a reputation as a non-productive, non-inspiring institution. Whether out of disinterest or disfavor, Harvard has done little to encourage interest or participation in the arts...
...increase in faculty contact is of great importance to undergraduates" but the lack of contact "reflects not a disinterest but the serious pressures of time that faculty members face here." Bok cited the time demands of research, committee assignments, and outside obligations as "significant burdens" on faculty members...
...helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however. In a show of confidence that legal gold would yet glitter for them, they bid the price back up to $178 on the London market by week...
This is a movie conceived with indifference and made with disinterest, like a piece of occupational therapy...
...this point in the interview Heller turned to speak to his wife, who expressed her desire to see Harvard Yard, despite his evident disinterest...