Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe no one understands it. But a large part of the problem is a compound of U.S. intervention and U.S. disinterest--intervention by the government and disinterest on the part of the foreign policy public. While it would be naive to suggest that public indignation could quickly change the direction of U.S. policy, the same efforts towards educating and interesting and shaming the public that were eventually influential in Vietnam are needed in regard to Latin America...
...explanations for the underrepresentation of women in the winners' circles for these 29 awards, recognizing individual essays, poems, musical compositions or academic achievement. One Radcliffe administrator has called the findings "mysterious." An investigation is now underway to determine whether outright discrimination among judges, poor publicity of the prizes, or disinterest among women students lies at the root of the discrepancy. The corrective effort seems to have universal support from Radcliffe and Harvard officials; Dean Whitlock has written a letter of inquiry to those prize committees that have not recognized women in their eligible proportions...
...revelations raised eyebrows in many Harvard quarters. Alberta Arthurs, dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, who requested the study, said the findings are "even more mysterious than we had supposed." Diagnoses of the discrepancy range from accusations of discrimination against women applicants to a more benign disinterest among students--men and women--in the competitions...
...sure enough, most Harvard students learn to accept the disinterest as a show of faith, as some demonstration that Harvard, the great inhuman institution, believes its sons will voluntarily join the elite...
...that have assumed power in Bolivia and Brazil, or the nationalist, left-wing military regimes in Peru and Panama, Uruguay's new leaders seem almost apolitical. Although vociferously anti-Marxist, they describe their aims in naively chivalrous and even quixotic phrases-like serving as "watchdogs of patriotism, austerity, disinterest, generosity, honor and firmness of character...