Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that, with its zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic ps and qs, has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. The players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater...
Today's playgoers are not so likely to be put off by Cock-A-Doodle Dan dy's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic...
...administrative positions in our prisons today who got there only because of political affiliation and who are far from being trained for the jobs they hold. But I do sincerely believe that the major factor in the ever-growing penal problems of today stems from the complacency and apparent unconcern of the voting public and inefficiencies of the duly elected legislators. If only a small percentage of the funds used for all of the surveys and publications stressing "needed reforms" could be siphoned off and diverted to the institutional officials responsible, so that they could incorporate some of their well...
...ever there were a transcendent Negro symbol, it was Martin Luther King. Bridging the void between black despair and white unconcern, he spoke so powerfully of and from the wretchedness of the Negro's condition that he became the moral guidon of civil rights not only to Americans but also to the world beyond. If not the actual catalyst, he was the legitimizer of progress toward racial equality. His role and reputation may have been thrust upon him, but King was amply prepared for the thrust...
...looting of stores and the destruction of homes and lives has upon these people does not help the fight for equal opportunity. The cause gains little when a Negro robs a liquor store or steals a television set; it is hurt tremendously. I question whether replacing the disrespect and unconcern that white America has shown for the Negro with fear is progress towards the end of racial prejudice...