Word: contemptable
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...switch on Confucius is apparently part of an effort to reverse the destructive effect on China of Mao's hatred for traditional learning and his contempt for intellectuals. Now that the post-Mao regime of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng has begun to reconstitute the nation's ravaged educational system, China's greatest scholar and thinker may yet be fully rehabilitated. As Confucius said: "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them...
...gimmick, the straight man in a series of humorless, introspective routines. Want to introduce the possibility of belief into your characters' lives? Done--make them fallen or apostate Catholics. After that you don't even have to bother to flesh out the reasons for their guilt and self-contempt. The very fact that The Church is looking over their shoulder should be seen as reason enough...
...attempt to rebuild part of the old jail, but that petered out amid charges that Sheriff Mike Sullivan was using construction workers to make improvements on his own home. This month, finding the jail still overcrowded. Judge Sessions declared Sheriff Sullivan and five other county officials in contempt. Instead of jailing them, however, he suspended their sentences on the condition that the population of the prison be held to no more than 500 between now and Sept...
...Ohio district court judge Friday charged three men with contempt and sentenced them to five days in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from their involvement in demonstration on the Kent State campus last summer...
Seven of the 197 demonstrators arrested for refusing to leave pleaded not guilty in July and were found guilty in a trial Friday. When the three men refused to pay a fine the judge sentenced them to jail for contempt of court...