Word: condescending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stupid old man, said Novelist (The Once and Future King) T. H. White, 57. And that, he added, is just what has happened to T. S. Eliot, 75. Once the great guru of contemporary poets, Eliot has joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said T.H. of T.S., "he is out-due for the chop. Eliot is no longer cool. He's square...
...take his inspired vision of France for the reality, to accept his own obduracy and obstruction as a show of national strength. Today, with real military strength, a robust economy, Europe's most productive agriculture, he feels that France has an even greater right to alienate allies and condescend to friends...
...Establishment and determined to stay there, Stanhope found the leisure to write poetry and critical appreciations of Corneille by marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...
...entire frame of mind in which Jews outside Israel condescend to help Israelis financially is wrong, in Comet's opinion, for the essence of Zionism is the unity and totality of the people. Therefore Jews in and out of Israel must work as partners, not as older and younger brothers, and the state must be the product of the people as a whole. This concept transcends the idea of a political state, and since it has not yet been realized Zionism was not made useless in 1948, he said...
...gentleman, De Gaulle will be polite. Because he is De Gaulle, he will be relentless in pressing his case. But De Gaulle, a man who has just suffered the humiliation of seeing some of his top generals in mutiny against him, was in no position to condescend, even if his young guest is little more than half...