Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unconcern with pants and petticoats...
...other hand, the doors of a bookshop take on an entirely new aspect to him who turns to go. He is assailed with an entirely unforeseen sense of obligation. The jaws of the trap close suddenly. The very unconcern of the salesmen, their perfect willingness to let him be, becomes a burden. He feels something like a moral obligation to buy. It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker...
...days to go, and only an insignificant fraction of the University's quota in the Louvain Library drive has been subscribed. The situation, as the Committee has stated, is grave. In all quarters the solicitors report unconcern. The only explanation is that the students do not yet understand its importance, or have not been made to feel the peculiar appropriateness of our share in raising the fund...
...only unnecessary but they are premature. If the college radical bodies are planning anarchy then something must be done. If they are meeting merely to discuss the various aspects of the radical movement they are only doing intelligent citizen's duty. If the great body of students shows total unconcern toward the whole question--as is nearer the true situation--colleges are, in fact, far from hot beds of radicalism, and stand in need of a few live coals to stir them up to a comprehension of the uncertain state of society. --Yale News...