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...just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry from "Private Life...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fallen Music | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

...latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Night Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Kristol said American liberalism has moved progressively from laissez-faire doctrine to the welfare state to a radical position that "holds American values in contempt instead of celebrating the American way of life...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Kristol and Glazer Describe Neoconservatism | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...shout. Students who want to "succeed" here too often feel they must do so by beating out their friends, by academic toadying or by unrelenting competitiveness. Today at Harvard, the majority of students, faculty and administrators are alienated from each other, locked into a self-perpetuating cycle of contempt, resentment and hostility. Professors peer down at students from the podium and avoid them elsewhere. Students don't go to office hours, and if a professor sits down with them at lunch they stammer or leave. Administrators sneer at student activists, who retaliate with accusations of immorality or deliberate evil. Students...

Author: By Susan D. Chira president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

REPORTING for The Crimson, I have spoken with many administrators who are normally inaccessible, and I do not believe they are morally callous. But they are blinded by their own contempt for students--an attitude they may not acknowledge but is nonetheless pervasive. I sense this contempt in their scorn for idealistic political positions, the anger with which moral questions about University conduct are greeted, the condescension with which they answer student concerns. One administrator once told me he could not respect student activists because they always ended up as lawyers or businessmen, joining the system they vowed to break...

Author: By Susan D. Chira president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

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