Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia and to dismiss with ill-natured contempt and scorn the hard-won political freedom of western democracies...
...solving the ago-old problem of the relation of the one to the many, of the individual to society. He tries in vain to find a hitching post to which he can hook his personality beyond all danger of becoming loosened. The reader, reflecting on the author's self-contempt at being unable to espouse and realizes what Mr. Sheean could not that, as shown in "Personal History." Communism is in the last analysis but another extreme, another Utopia. One leaves Mr. Sheean convinced of the significance in the fact that so honest a man, striving...
...managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding the League of Nations does him less credit than the remainder of his opinions...
...Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac...
...Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...