Word: condescendingness
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Finally, Albert Sciaki's review of The American Dream, like Altbach's condescending advice, is almost unworthy of publication. Of course there are plenty of intellectuals hungry for a theater that will offer up some good satire; but most would rather starve than gorge to death on the trivia of...
Son of a minor railroad official, Schröder was perennial head of his class and still, say his foes, has the star pupil's condescending manner. From Königsberg University, Law Student Schröder went to the University of Edinburgh, finished his studies with a doctorate...
From my observations, the best a peon can hope for in a patron is a condescending paternalism, considering the Indians as innocent, somewhat retarded children. The worst he can expect are varied atrocities ranging from the common practice of beatings and whippings to extreme cases of unprovoked murder. Last year...
"Is it really a good thing to strain so hard-to get the 'best' students, particularly when no one can define or identify the 'best' when we are dealing with seventeen-year-olds and there are so many different kinds of 'bests'? No one can ever prove which college has...
All this might be tiresomely kookie, were it not for Alvin Duskin, 30, founder and chairman of the Board of Fellows (which he calls "a legal fiction for the benefit of the state"). Duskin looks and acts quite square. His face is scrubbed, his shoes polished, his tie neatly knotted...