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...short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference?? on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties sanctimony, but it was correct in its observation that socialism and political Marxism are more or less gone from the hearts and minds of Cambridge’s collegiate population...
Thirteen members of the Class of 1967 have sent an open letter to University President Drew G. Faust accusing Harvard students of “widespread apathy and political indifference?? and asking her to name a task force to investigate ways to increase political engagement...
...indifference??or, at least, blasé inured-ness—to real violence that some of these stories contain is also troubling. It is one thing to set off violence in quotation marks, as it were—to foreground the kinds of grisly scenarios that television, movies, and video games cynically use to pique our voyeuristic interest for profit. However, there is a point at which one has to question whether the ironic distance implied from what is described renders these stories sufficiently interesting to justify its disturbing presence...
...response “achingly slow.” And responding to allegations of racism in the government’s reaction, Obama said he did not blame federal officials for any “active malice,” but for “passive indifference??—the assumption that people of all races and income levels had the necessary resources to evacuate before the hurricane...
...Darfur “the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis.” He added, “I don’t know why the world isn’t doing more about it.” Unfortunately, reasons for inaction—cowardice, callousness and indifference??are myriad; justifications are not. Our leaders can no longer plead ignorance. The Bush Administration must act now or face the harsh judgment of history...