Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That survey found that the most boring behaviors were banality, such as talking about trivial or superficial things or showing interest in only one topic, and "negative egocentrism," which essentially meant complaining about oneself and showing disinterest in others...
...some reason, apparently, students do not want contact with professors. As an Undergraduate Council report on SCR's notes, "Most masters have horror stories about SCR members coming to lunch, and students ignoring them." The Council's report concludes that student disinterest is generally due to ignorance and shyness...
...crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand in those picket lines. When we called Joseph to come down at 6 a.m. his response was shock and dismay: "You mean that people get up for work that early?" Again, he didn't show. For his obvious disinterest in working class struggle, Joseph was appointed labor reporter at The Crimson. To secure his post, Joe was told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn't wear any "Better Red than Crimson" SYL T-shirts around the big boys at "The Crime." Of course, he eagerly...
However, it is the richness of the Harvard community that fosters the disinterest...
...group of caring friends was always very important, but increasingly so during my junior and senior years as the undergraduates (both Harvard and Radcliffe) developed great apathy and cynicism I saw this distressing anomie show up in colder personal relations, disillusionment with the administration and college institutions, political disinterest and constant major-switching, especially with the boys. We didn't know the reasons for it, and many people kept the momentum going, but it was uphill work...