Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, King Alfonso had been filling his engagements with marked unconcern. The only outward sign that he gave concerning the dastardly attempt to assassinate him was to take enough time off from his scheduled duties to view the monster bomb that had first been found...
...been pointed out several times that extra-curriculum activities at Harvard are controlled by private school graduates. Since those men come to college with the idea of carrying on this tradition, they are accustomed to look upon studies with unconcern. But in attaching so much importance to acquiring extra-curriculum fame in college, they are not stopping to consider whether they are preparing themselves for future greatness. Of course, I do not mean to argue that college can necessarily produce individuals who will be famous in later life. Yet, it is my opinion that men who are born with natural...
...leaders in undergraduate affairs, with a few exceptions condemn studies. As men who are thought to be great will always be imitated by other men a large number of students holding approminent place in extra-curriculum activities likewise look upon studies with unconcern. This general attitude is strengthened by the existence of two or three conventional phrason...among the most popular of which is the saying that if an undergraduate takes part in extra-curriculum activities, he will "find himself." Of course, what happens to the undergraduate when he goes out for competitions is that he acquires a sort...
...growing prominence of Latin athletes Heywood Broun envisions the approaching displacement of the Spartan ideal of ascetic preparation by an Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...PEDLAR'S PACK?Rowland Kenney ?Seltzer ($2.00). Despite its troubadour-like title, this is no pretty-gypsy tale of wanderings amid the birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy...