Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flustered McCarthy cited Lamont for contempt of Congress, and he was later indicted. The Senator had not expected this challenge, for the Lamont he had been grilling was the indifferent Lamont, who had written two years earlier, in connection with charges of Communism, "I was getting very bored with it all. I swore to myself that I was not going to spend the rest of my life denying silly stories that I was a Communist. Such accusations have always seemed so fantastic that I tended to laugh them off, to deny them intermittently, or to take refuge in the well...
Another chapter in the Furry-Kamin saga was being written as the term ended. Cited for contempt of Congress, both Wendell H. Furry and Leon J. Kamin '49 pleaded not guilty to a total of 16 charges and will face a long court battle this spring. Members of the Physics and Social Relations Departments immediately started funds for the defense of the pair...
...point has as yet been made of the number of replies to the letter of appeal the committee sent out last Thursday to some 8,000 persons holding Corporation appointments, asking them to contribute money for the defense of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, under indictment for contempt of Congress...
...Ghost at Noon is far from being Moravia's best book. It is all too spelled-out, and Riccardo is so uninteresting that Emilia's contempt is inevitable. A fine short-story writer, Moravia could have improved A Ghost vastly by scrapping half of it. But even as it stands, this is a penetrating look at embattled personalities, a marital case history that the great Stendhal would have savored with pleasure...
...committee of 20 professors mailed a letter to every member of the faculty Thursday soliciting money to help defend Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, indicted last month for contempt of Congress...