Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to be as expansive as his face, many a Sweitzer friend could hardly believe the news. A few recalled that, on a salary of $9,000 a year, he had run through a long series of spectacular business failures. But Bob Sweitzer himself made a great show of unconcern. Blithe as a jaybird with a worm, he continued going to afternoon baseball games, banquets, told newshawks: "I'm not worried, only annoyed. I will ask for a reasonable time to check the audit. . . . There are some controversial items...
...attitude of placid unconcern characterizes the Administration's stand in regard to solving the commuter problem. University Hall remains complacently aloof, although members of the faculty declare Phillips Brooks House inadequate to meet the commuters' needs and a student committee requests some definite aid in reaching some satisfactory solution...
...better. Henry's personality appealed to him. The very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...
Graduate schools, of course, inevitably, accompany an undergraduate system which aims at catholicity rather than specialization, which in turn accompanies a half-hearted attempt to compromise with the practical. With that attempt I sympathize, in theory. Cambridge has outgrown its unconcern with the contemporary, but American universities have had two centuries of modernity. Nevertheless the question of purpose needs to be reconsidered in relation to university training everywhere, and in this particular I prefer the English practice. Ostensibly the English system is run to produce bishops, judges, members of Parliament, Higher Civil Servants, and Pure Scientists. As these are assumed...
...manner that implies that death is not inevitable"; opened their eyes wider & wider at this doom-implying youngster as they read further. To readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan tries to tell about is "the truth of my presence on earth." In his own person or in thin disguise he writes about barber shops, bawdy houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco...