Word: contemptable
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...substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence...
Foremost in Reagan's outlook is his perception that circumstances have changed in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. The Reagan who called the U.S.S.R. the "evil empire" and chose to challenge Communism in Grenada and Nicaragua was driven by the sting of Soviet contempt, his own sense of alarming U.S. military weakness and the need to demonstrate resolve. The Reagan who now reaches out for arms accords is convinced he is dealing from renewed strength and can afford a touch of magnanimity, or at least flexibility...
Bonanno, 82, seems to have had second thoughts about what he triggered. The aged boss has left his Arizona retirement mansion to serve a contempt-of-court sentence in a Springfield, Mo., federal prison rather than give testimony in the Commission trial. The mobster turned author, says one investigator, "is hearing footsteps...
...reform (NATION, Aug. 25) may be a miracle for the rich, the poor and the elderly, but for the middle class, the new tax law can only be held in contempt. How can the Reagan Administration ask the average wage earner to go on paying and paying for Social Security benefits that he may never see, for an astronomical defense budget, for aid to the contras and for yet another NASA shuttle? It is incredible that any tax reform would delete child-care credits, double-earner exemptions and IRA write-offs. What is miraculous is that after using half...
...deeply impressed by the German university system. America, he wrote, must develop "a system of education based chiefly upon the pure and applied sciences, the living European languages, and mathematics . . . The vulgar argument that the study of the classics is necessary to make a gentleman is beneath contempt...