Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions themselves as much as Harvard's unconcern about them that upset many Cambridge politicians. "It's just two more examples of Harvard's belief that it is above the law," City Council candidate David Sullivan said last week. "Just because Harvard is the biggest boy on the block doesn't mean they're not the bully," he added...
...supremacy of anarchy and annihilation was discerned by Dostoyevsky when he wrote that if God does not exist, everything is permitted. Doctorow simply secularizes that prophecy into supine universal unconcern, ecological devastation and the nuclear holocaust...
...White House. To the public at large as well as to economists and businessmen, the contradictions appear to mirror an equally mixed-up management of the economy by the Carter Administration. Policy zigged from talking up a tough tax reform to abandoning most of it, zagged from professing unconcern about the dollar's slide to intervening actively in currency markets to prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity for listening first to one economic adviser, then to another, Washington wits began quoting, accurately or not, a scathing description of Franklin Roosevelt supposedly offered by Economist John Maynard Keynes...
Evangelical visibility [Dec. 26] is due in part to the failure of the liberal establishment to do anything except follow the line of retreat, retrenchment and unconcern for the true Gospel. But the Evangelicals have not arrived. The movement has only reached a point where, if it does not assault and change the sources of power in America, it will decline. I refer to the mainline denominations, the liberal theological seminaries, the large secularized universities, the business world, the media and other powerful organizations that still go their old ways without repentance or significant alteration...
...sloppiness found in much of today's writing indicates a deeper unconcern with fact and accuracy, Tuchman told an audience of approximately 100 people in Harvard Hall. Tuchman said that a true feeling for grammatical structure could come only from a study of Latin no longer emphasized in modern education...