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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. ............................................................................ 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 For more details and to join the chat, visit http://wordsmith.org/chat The topic of the chat is: Online Journalism. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/pococurante.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/pococurante.ram
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