Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both faculty members refused to divulge the names of their former party associates, however, and McCarthy warned them that he would request the Senate to cite them for contempt, which it did. The two were found innocent...
...Contradict yourself, in order to live. You must remain broken up," wrote Lewis in 1917. His contempt for the sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...
...Deans, and ten Yul Brynners." But by and large, French moviemen admire Hollywood. Says Alexandre Astruc, one of France's brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood is a royal house exhausted by family marriages...
...Three Messiahs. Scholars doubt whether the Righteous Teacher will ever be specifically identified. The important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return...
...President's measure, while it recognizes the importance of the controversy, is deficient in its remedies. Eisenhower's feeling that a constitutional discussion must be resolved by an amendment indicates a certain unnecessary contempt for the stature of Congressional legislation. In the present case, immediate legislation is not only more necessary than the protracted amendment process, but is also sufficient on legal grounds to meet a crisis should it occur...