Word: calloused
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Such chilling scenes have built up a widespread misunderstanding of Patton that not even eight earlier and more friendly biographies could knock down. As this ninth attempt makes clear, the impression that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...
Citing "the callous disregard for human life that has been shown by terrorists up and down the country," British Governor Sir Richard Luyt called in 5,000 Tommies to quell the riots and assumed emergency rule-in effect stripping Jagan of power. He also ordered Guianese to turn in all private firearms except licensed pistols, under pain of life imprisonment plus flogging. Through it all, the Colonial Office in London stood firm by the election schedule, while the sugar companies stuck with the established union...
...wife's death at the hands of his paranoid father, whom LeBlanche himself is forced to kill in turn. With this amalgam of somber tragedy and high humor, Author Cuomo probes an ancient and great theme: the growth of a man in the teeth of fortune's callous blows. Result: a variegated, sometimes unusual, always hearty novel...
...Callous disregard of undergraduate opinion has gone too far with the announcement that Kresge will be the only dining hall open this vacation. It's not that we object to the quality of the food--we've long since lost our taste for that. Nor is it that it's so far away, since exercise is probably good for us. It's just that we don't want to get beat up on the Weeks Bridge after dinner every night...
...strangely awry; and some of America's best-known rogues had Irish names. James M. Curley had wit, verve, and a burning sense of social injustice, but hardly any sense of personal integrity. Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting in a mellifluous baritone from his pulpit in Detroit, berated the callous bankers and businessmen who, he said, had brought on the Depression. But like Curley, Coughlin had no positive remedies; his Sunday sermons became exercises in slander. Before he was finally forced off the air by dwindling financial support, Coughlin was denouncing Jews and calling for a Franco-type rebellion...