Word: contemptable
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...weeks ago, he and Rosalynn left Plains for a vacation trip to Scandinavia, and on the way back he visited French President François Mitterrand. Carter has been strangely polite in his criticism of Reagan, despite the fact that the President, as Carter knows, holds him in contempt. For some months, Carter was denied even the minimal daily briefing reports that are provided to a hundred or so top officials in the Government. He endured it for a while and then asked his former press secretary, Jody Powell, to complain. After Powell threatened to go public with the slight...
...rise in the power of political action committees (P.A.C.s) is alarming. The result is a breakdown of the democratic process in which rich minorities buy votes and elections with total disregard for the rest of America. Ironically, Congress continues to wonder why the public views it with contempt...
Throughout the ages, leprosy has been looked upon with contempt and horror. The Bible enjoins lepers to "dwell alone," wear torn clothing and cry out "Unclean, unclean." In the Middle Ages lepers were barred from public buildings, forbidden to speak with children and required to sound a bell or clapper. The very word leper came to mean outcast...
...OTHER characters worthy of mention are Richard Rich and Thomas Cromwell who plan More's downfall. They are power-hungry, jealous of More's idealistic control over the king. Lawrence Aronovitch plays a truly despicable Cromwell as his whole face gleams with disdain and contempt. His hatred is so strong that we are stonewalled in our attempts to find anything redeeming...
...passages Schell gratuitously indulges in pet peeves and theories. For example, Schell-a confirmed Nixon hater whose last book, The Time of Illusion, was on Watergate-at one point suggests that Nixon could conceive of detente with the Soviet leaders partly because he and they shared a contempt for human rights. Not only is this charge dubious, to say the least, it is irrelevant to his thesis. Schell, like any writer, needs a good editor...