Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that women at Harvard would continue to need an organization committed first and foremost to their needs. Horner, who was instrumental in negotiating the agreement that preserved a Radcliffe College, has consistently maintained that her college continues to serve women students by safeguarding their interests against encroachments, or simple disinterest, of the Harvard administration. Clearly, if Radcliffe is to have any meaning for women students beyond its status as a national center for women's scholarship, it must be as such an advocate for women within the Harvard community...
...After pricing to a point where the merchant is unwilling to come down to the group's price, they walk out, planning to return often claiming. "I can get this anywhere in the Medina," or a similar phrase of disinterest...
Blacks view this reluctance not only as white separation, but also as white disinterest, which in turn leads them to identify even more exclusively with other Blacks. So what started out as peer support and an affirmation of culture rapidly institutionalizes the separation from which Blacks and whites ostensibly wish to escape...
...tension that these rivalries create--and the bond that keeps them together--is never developed in the play. When Deidre asks Kit why friendship is so important to her, she answers with seeming disinterest...
...novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin dissected and described his characters' passions with the meticulous disinterest of a big-city coroner ("Then she sank to the part of his body she thought was his heart but was in fact his sternum and the upper lobe of his left lung"). A physician like his spiritual contemporary Céline, Döblin saw Germany as a huge human slaughterhouse and Franz as "a big, good-natured sheep.' Mixing statistics of death and disease with the story of some petty, brutal people living in East Berlin...