Word: condescendingness
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Prominent, national Black leaders have, unfortunately, been rare in American history. Reactions to such leaders have ranged from overt bigotry to condescending protectionism.
It was 20 years ago that she abruptly decided to stand up to her country's male-dominated political culture. In 1969 Doi, then a lecturer at Doshisha, approached the deputy mayor of her hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P...
A patient interviewer and an even more patient listener, Parker captures the appeal of the familiar without sounding quaint or condescending. His Kansas is certainly less exciting than the one Truman Capote invented nearly 25 years ago, when he absented himself from Manhattan's society lunch circuit to pioneer the...
The demands may be amorphous, but there can be no doubt about the passion, as evidenced by the willingness of ordinary people to obstruct tanks and of hunger strikers to court death. If anything, the absence of an ideology with specific long-range aims indicates just how powerful is the...
Wolff, who called the text of Kennedy's letter"disingenuous and condescending," said he does notmind both sides campaigning openly, but added thatUniversity officials should remain neutral, asthey traditionally have.