Word: contemptible
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...Jeffries, whose critics accuse him of being a racist, an anti-Semite and a homophobe, was greeted by more than just those who turned out to see or protest him. His appearance drew the scorn and contempt of many of Harvard's top professors...
This is the kind of harebrain thinking on Jeffries part that can become the vicious cannonfodder of enormous discord between Jews and Blacks, and the leaders of Black students at Harvard ought to have enough clarity of mind to recognize this and thus to treat Jeffries with the contempt he warrants. Jeffries warrants the same contempt that his harebrain counterpart among those I like to call the "scum segment" of America's New Right--the segment who utter fullfledged idiocy about the non-existence of the Holocaust, cynically placing advertisements to this effect in newspapers and magazines...
...Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed by a racially inspired bombing in 1963. Their destination: the federal courthouse three blocks away, where Arrington surrendered and was taken to the minimum-security prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery to begin serving a prison term for contempt of court...
...aviatrix, played by Candy Buckley, manages the part quite well, given the rather stereotyped "fearless Nadia" role that Shaw created for her. With her contempt for the romantic, her functional masculine clothing and her lithe, muscular body, she is not so much a character as a symbol of Shaw's perfect woman...
...secure and self- absorbed," suffering from "the boredom of peace and prosperity," devoid of the "striving spirit" that gives humanity its sense of direction. Homo politicus is on the brink of becoming "the last man" -- the ultimate couch potato, "less than a full human being, an object of contempt...