Word: condescendingness
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That part is the bureaucratic, well-dressed, English-accented, sometimes amiable, and sometimes condescending Harvard administration. It's no minor affair. Scores of deans, governors, administrators and vice-presidents steer this very wealthy ship into calm but profitable waters. Their journeys take them toward new academic and technological frontiers and...
Dale has the showier role. In recounting, directly to the audience, the downs and irrepressible ups of the couple's years together, he mimics a condescending Viennese specialist, a trendy clergyman, a miraculously cured boy catatonic turned tap dancer. Leaping like a mountain goat from one peak of artifice to...
This sorr of condescending professor talk limits Postscript's appeal, and unfortunately so. Eco rather interesting questions about literature and the craft of writing in general, but it's no fun to watch an author be little must of his audience. If you read The Name of the Rose on...
The first involves Harvard's ever-gingerly relations with the city of Boston. Efforts by Harvard students and administrators to counter the University's image as an elitist occupying army are badly undermined by squabbles such as this one: one condescending remark can make a far deeper local impression than...
Several interesting questions are posed now that will bear examining over these next months. According to political folklore, many Americans west of the Mississippi view Washington, so highly educated and amply endowed with the taxpayers' money, as an arrogant and isolated state within a state, condescending toward the rest...