Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land with cries for liberty. With a sedulously fostered reputation for financial wizardry, former Economics Professor Salazar has kept Portugal's budget balanced, but at the expense of workers, who are among the worst-paid, worst-fed and most illiterate in Western Europe. Yet, showing a strange political unconcern, the voters have made no serious move to replace...
...French army, inertia, poor pay, bad quarters and a casual official unconcern for the soldiers' dependents back home sap morale. Most of the generals, according to Servan-Schreiber, are ribbon-happy pols who insist on military operations in keeping with their inflated status even when their sectors contain no one in particular to shoot-except innocents...
...quality, the cast could stand on its head if it wished. For those who prefer G & S in the grand manner, the stage may be too simple and the acting underdeveloped. But for those who like pure G & S without ornamental trappings, the production is much superior for its unconcern with frills...
...most important of these new interpretations is that of Maya. Reality, says the classic Vedanta doctrine, is one-hence all plurality (Maya) is illusion. And if all man experiences is illusion, why worry about anything? This interpretation is widely blamed for the traditional passivity of Indians and their unconcern with social injustice. Radhakrishnan argues, says Moses, that "the spatiotemporal world is no empty dream or inexplicable illusion. It is only a lower order of reality, an order which has no being in itself but only in God." Consequently, this world becomes real, ethical behavior serious, and human history meaningful...
...flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children's sidewalk scrawls; the figures might as well be cow with heifers as dog with pups. The message is the same: adult overconcern v. childhood unconcern. But the enveloping red which has already colored the bellowing female suggests the alarming possibility that this time the danger may be real...