Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, at week's end, it was likely that the House would accept the Senate civil rights bill with one major amendment: the Senate provision requiring jury trials for all criminal contempt cases would be narrowed to include only those pertaining to voting rights. After that, the prospect was for President Eisenhower to sign the bill-probably with an accompanying message criticizing it and promising that the Republicans would be back next session with a stronger bill...
...persons whose voting rights are violated. But having thus moved forward, the Senate bill rear-marched with amendments that 1) restricted enforcement only to voting cases, 2) extended the right of jury trials for the first time in U.S. history to all phases of criminal (but not civil) contempt of court...
...retreat-which would have been called betrayal short months ago-the Leadership Conference had plenty of company. Word spread that Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock...
From the moment it unveils its mock-hero, Rock Hunter (Tony Randall), ensconced side-screen as a one-man band in a spoof of the awe-struck music that always accompanies the searchlights introducing a Fox movie, Success is obviously in merry contempt of all that is sacred. The ensuing titles compete hopelessly with a series of TV commercials, totally irrelevant, but so distractingly zany that nobody will pay the least attention to the screen credits. Success roars onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space...
...scriptural, credal, ministerial or sacramental orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church to find itself and do its work of worship, witness...