Word: contemptable
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...excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals. Combined with his survivor's shrewdness in observing the behavior that betrays motives, it is what gave his productions both realism and driving power. Above all, it is what enabled him to survive the contempt heaped on him after his HUAC testimony. This is how he remembers his interior monologue at the time, addressed to his critics: "You can't hurt me; you haven't penetrated my guard; I can beat you at any game you choose to play, because I may not be smarter than...
...year-old Sigmund Freud was allowed to leave German-occupied Austria in 1938, the SS insisted he sign a statement claiming he had been treated well. He complied with a flourish: "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." This defiant and, under the circumstances, risky display of contempt was typical of the man who invented psychoanalysis. Throughout his life, Freud sought to maintain control. In his final hours, suffering through the last stages of throat cancer in 1939, he told the physician who had accompanied him to England to "make an end of it." The doctor obediently administered...
Realizing that the administrators in Mass. Hall have continuously shown contempt for student opinion, activists have sought to change the University's investment policy on a level that the administration can understand--the financial level...
...jail for tax resistance. You can only go to jail if you are guilty of contempt of court by refusing to show financial records if summoned," Pierce said. "If you don't file, it makes it much harder for the IRS to get your money. It means more work for the IRS since they must file your return with approximated figures and assess your...
PLENTY must have been a difficult play to produce, especially for a college group. It tolerates nothing short of perfection from the actors and the director. Playwright David Hare has nothing but contempt for such mundane matters as coherence or chronology. The play demands complete attention from the audience at all times. But it's an absorbing and challenging play, and the Dunster production rescues it from a potential mire of complications and communicates its full, disturbing potential in the miniscule Junior Common Room...