Word: disinterested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week in the Sea of Japan [April 25], we deeply mourn their deaths and ache with sorrow for their families. But we are angered and appalled, too, at the apparent contentment on the part of the American people to accept this loss with "cool" and "reserve," euphemisms for disinterest and apathy...
...reaction of Ethos' members to the COWI proposals can best be described as sympathetic disinterest. "Ethos," explained Karen Williamson, "is still trying to get the proposals of last spring accepted. They are sort of vaguely included in the COWI proposals. These proposals are an attempt to involve the rest of the student body, so they are watered down.... They are too weak to get our support...and are not even controversial any more. People feel that commentary on the proposals is enough. My feeling is that that's fine and dandy. Now back to business...
...truth is that such disasters as the Battle of Chicago are easily avoided by granting the demonstrators' legitimate demands, such as rallying in parks, and smothering the affair in a soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with demonstration leaders and masses of calm cops who flood the premises, making sure that any violence is committed only by small groups of isolated, discredited protesters. When 25,000 anti-Castro Cubans wanted to picket the Republican Convention, for example, Miami Beach Police Chief Pomerance quietly diverted...
...most whites, like most Negroes, still remain outside the civil rights movement, often by choice. The small army of suburbanites that descended on New York City's ghetto districts one recent weekend, brooms and paintbrushes in hand, left most of their neighbors at home in various degrees of disinterest. "Volunteerism is not any great answer," says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans. "The suburbanites who go into the slum have contact, but they probably need it the least. The ones who need it are the ones who stayed home...
...middle-class, middle-aged, virtue. Without striking too shrill a note, it might be accurate to say that there is an awareness and dissatisfaction with the methods of indoctrination which the speculative and historical sciences have imposed on college students. The university is no longer the ivory citadel of disinterest for which it has so long been rebuked. Would that it might again become so. Benito Rakower Institute for Services to Education