Word: condescendingness
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Ill at Ease. A native Californian, Pauline Kael arrived in New York three years ago and landed a reviewing job on McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six...
Now that jazz is certified as America's own cultural contribution, the music world has pretty well taken it into the family. But only as a sort of stepsister. Classical musicians and listeners accept its presence, but they don't necessarily understand it, much less like it. Even...
The best way to describe the entire show is that it is a faltering but admirable attempt. It won't do either to laugh at the production or to be condescending toward it. One only hopes that the people in Eliot House will try again, soon.
It is always amazing to see the kinds of things that are said and written under the guise of being liberal; your editorial of March 19th ("hiring Blacks") is a curious source of amazement because its assumptions, like those of many liberals, are incredulous, naive and simply condescending.
He was laughed off as a windmill tilter, shrugged off as a lackluster campaigner, written off as a condescending cynic. But last week, when the votes in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary were counted, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eu gene J. McCarthy came off...