pococurante (po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-) adjective

   Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant.

noun

  A careless or indifferent person.

[From Italian, poco little + curante, present participle of curare, to
care, from Latin, curare, cure, care.]


   "The only child of an interminably famous literary theorist, and now
   pococurante chair of the English Department, Hank published one
   critically acclaimed novel -- `Off the Road' -- 20 years ago."
   Gail Caldwell, College Bound Richard Russo's Comic/Sad Novel of Learning
   and Campus Politics, Boston Globe, Jul 13, 1997.

This week's theme: words to describe people.

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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should
strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear
almost as a remembrance. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821)

Monday, Apr 9, 2001, our eighth online guest will be Sreenath Sreenivasan,
a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
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