Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympian Unconcern. Union economists argue that the worker has been hardest hit by inflation and is the one who will get squeezed the most in a tighter economy. A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany said last week that labor would not buy Nixon's call for wage moderation. He promised labor will continue to press for more and more, as prices continue to rise. In major contracts negotiated through September, the median increase in wages and fringes has jumped to 8.1% as against 6.6% for last year; in the construction trades, it is 12.5%. These are the kinds of increases...
Paul McCracken, chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, expects many strikes ahead, but is not too worried about their long-run effect on the economy. Indeed, some Administration policymakers profess a rather Olympian unconcern over the impact of strikes. Partly for that reason, the Administration is determined to stay out of labor disputes. Labor Secretary George Shultz emphasized its stand a week before the strike at a meeting of the Business Council, the elite group of 200 business leaders headed by G.E. Chairman Fred Borch. Briefing newsmen, Shultz predicted much labor unrest ahead, but declared that...
Alienation, that cliche. But it is a far more plausible explanation for the inhumanity of technocratic capitalists than the supposed social deficiencies of technocratic capitalism. And it is the only explanation for the unconcern of all of us as science undertakes the objectification and mechanization of everything human: intelligence, moral judgment, teaching, creativity, play, even child-making. As Roszak comments, it was once thought that such things were done for the joy of the-doing. Scientific culture, however, "makes no allowance for 'joy,' since that is an experience of intensive personal involvement." Nothing stands in the way of Progress...
...matter and attempted to work on the problem. The worst possible tactic, the one that was followed by SDS, was to treat the restructuring issue with steely and stubborn indifference. And yet, as long as SDS does look on itself as an insulated and pure force, relatively unconcerned with the number of people supporting, it, and not interested in actively making an effort to get man support, such an attitude of unconcern over the issue of restructuring is at least consistent, if not justified...
...Casey play that has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. Accustomed as they are to the theater of the absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...