Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice rails upon yon simple thief," Lear says to Gloucester. ". . . Change places; and handy-dandy, which is the justice, which the thief." Many observers connected with Harvard have long looked upon the Arnold Arboretum controversy with similar bemusement and unconcern. To them, the problem of housing the Arboretum's botanical library and specimens has been a thorn in the University's side through ten years of huff and puff. But for those people actually touched by the controversy, the solution of the Arboretum dispute is a matter of principle and commonsense...
...juxtaposition of two works--one from the School of Worcester and the other by Dunstabe--served to point up the great differences between the medieval and Renaissance approach: the former was sturdy and barbaric, the lines being forced into a rhythmic strait-jacket with a witting unconcern for beauty of sound; the latter was smooth and euphonious, with emphasis on serene arches of sophisticated simplicity...
Steinmetz took this to be "an academic vindication." "By engaging me," he said, "Cornell has demonstrated its unconcern for California's primitive laws...
Steinmetz took this to be "an academic vindication." "By engaging me," he said, "Cornell has demonstrated its unconcern for California's primitive laws...
...Canada to Mexico, from coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while...