Word: unconcerned
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...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...
...uneasy at a ceremony emphasizing our current high state of culture," said Bly. "It turns out that we can put down a revolution as well as the Russians in Budapest, we can destroy a town as well as the Germans did at Lidice, all with our famous unconcern." For his hyperbole-the kind of thing that Vladimir Nabokov calls poshlost-Bly drew some expected cheers, and a resounding volley of jeers...
...time and with a maximum of thoughtfulness and sensitivity. But for the third assignment, the commission, stunned by the gravity and magnitude of the problem, produced shotgun recommendations without regard for cost or national priority. Though many of the recommendations were urgently needed, the commission's apparent unconcern for political practicability was surprisingly unrealistic...
Though the disease fighters were hampered by the public's unconcern, they were helped by some characteristics of the measles virus. There is only one type, as against three for polio. One shot of vaccine made from live but attenuated virus confers lifelong immunity. And the wild virus has no reservoir, like that of rabies in animals or polio in sewage. It lives only in man. Wipe it out in man, and it is wiped out, period-except for sporadic outbreaks among unvaccinated children, caused by virus imported by a traveler...
...Negro candidates, the eleven-year-old Bahamian Party had managed to hold onto power largely through the divisions within the opposition and the apathy of Negro voters, who seemed not to want a change. Thus the party went into last week's election with an almost smug unconcern; it staged no rallies, and its leaders in government even refused interviews. The 14-year-old Progressive Liberal Party, however, campaigned on all the main islands, plastered car and truck bumpers with stickers, and tacked up posters everywhere...