Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that if Furry and Kamin refused to tell the Massachusetts Commission the names of communists known to them and yet did not invoke the fifth amendment, under which witnesses may refuse to testify on the grounds of possible self-incrimination they would be reported to the state legislature for contempt action...
Whether or not, through Coriolanus, Shakespeare vented his own presumed contempt for the common people, he was by no means taking his hero's side. The play portrays the fickle, mindless mob as the poor creature of human vanity, but it also exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom...
...Kamin: Yes, in a sense, by teaching him that the world was not all black, that there "were varying shades of grey." Like Furry, Kamin refused to identify others he had known as Communists.* By their stand, the two witnesses gave McCarthy a chance to 1) threaten them with contempt citations, and 2) continue his feud with Harvard and Pusey. He would, he said, with obvious satisfaction, "hate to decimate the Harvard faculty" by sending Furry and Kamin to jail, but that might be the only way of dealing with "Pusey's Fifth Amendment Communists."* Later, asked by newsmen...
Last week, when Fisher, who wants to run for Congress in the Republican primary, reported to the U.S. marshal's office to begin a jail term for contempt, each and every employee was on hand to bid him goodbye as he vanished into durance vile until he changes his mind...
Furry and Kamin are hoping are hoping the courts will hold that Congressional Committees cannot constitutionally ask them to name other people. They may also hope that McCarthy, like Brother Jenner last year in similar cases, will not bother to press contempt charges. If the two wish to risk their personal freedom for a principle, under our system of government they have a right...