Word: contemptible
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Unfortunately, these worries are nothing new—many at Harvard have been uncomfortable with Summers’ tactics, which too often hint at contempt for students and faculty. It is a sad reality that we have to continue to ask Summers to loosen his grip on information and thoughtfully listen to what all the stakeholders at the University have...
...There’s Cupid again; in practice, though, the well-worn axiom’s “love” often ends up as no more than lip service. There is perhaps nothing more disingenuous than claiming that you love someone for whom you actually harbor visceral contempt, but apparently saying the word is enough to some. In this case, “love” becomes a license for intolerance, an empty word that might help people like Perkins get through the day a little bit easier...
...having created some definitive design benchmarks, while a sure sign of her eye, is not what has really given Prada her juice. What sets her apart is her disregard--in some cases, her open contempt--for the dictates of fashion. Whereas fashion expects an image to be constantly updated, Prada reportedly sank upwards of $100 million into projects that are supposed to be permanent, if not immutable: her architecturally pioneering stores in New York City (by Dutch brainiac Rem Koolhaas) and Tokyo (by the precise Swiss duo Herzog & De Meuron). Whereas common sense says a designer should design what...
...We’ve done this before and people have loved it,” Moylan says, describing the two previous events in which they paid homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt and the film noir genre...
...tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror, the best defense for democracies may be in having the confidence to err on the side...