Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DURHAM, N.H., May 22-Paul M. Sweezy '31, convicted of contempt for refusing to tell the state subversive activities committee about a 1954 lecture he delivered at the University of New Hampshire, returned to the university campus tonight for an address on "Marxian Socialism...
...back on the hope that "international opinion or action by foreign countries" will impose a solution on France. He denied a visa to the A.F.L.C.I.O. cloak-and-daggering European representative. Irving Brown. Said Lacoste: "Under pretext of trade unionism. Brown conducts adventurous activity with doubtful personages, showing the greatest contempt for the interests and position of France in Algeria." To keep a balance of sorts, he simultaneously ordered the expulsion of two of the more fanatic French colon leaders. (The two promptly announced: "It is the greatest honor a government we deeply despise can render us.") Then Lacoste flew...
...rooms with windows, for walls which do not rot, for contempt for papers, for a holy human time for a safe return home...
After a brief skirmish with cubism, Vlaminck in 1924 began striking out against the current trend, retired to Normandy and started painting the dozens of landscapes, golden wheat fields and chilly, windswept winter scenes (opposite) that earned him the title, "poet of stormy skies." Vlaminck today has nothing but contempt for most modern art, calls Picasso "the gravedigger of French art." Says he: "I still look at things with the eyes of my childhood; I am still moved by the same old sights: a forest path, a long country road flanked by poplars, the banks of a river...
...pending contempt of Congress trial of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, has been postponed briefly, U.S. Attorney Anthony Julian announced yesterday. Julian also said that a new date will be announced in the near future...