Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After serving a three-month stretch this year for contempt of a federal court, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, 70, onetime largesse-dripping crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, was to have stood trial for dodging $791,745 in federal income taxes during 1952-57. But last week three court-appointed psychiatrists reported their unanimous diagnosis: Goldfine suffers from a manic-depressive psychosis, has strong suicidal tendencies. The court called off the trial, ordered Goldfine committed to a hospital for treatment. In a parallel case, onetime Federal
...invited to attend a discussion meeting of a few young bureaucrats from a certain ministry. There he had the frightfully uncomfortble experience of listening to them expound the notion of the inherent inefficiency of the parliamentary system. They exhibited a peculiar combination of Marxist-Leninist contempt for parliamentarianism as a bourgeois facade with the impatient frustration of bureaucrats at the irritating inefficiency of the parliamentary procedure...
This elitist outlook toward politics was also shared by the intellectuals, particularly college professors. They exhibited their sceptical attitude toward members of the Diet and insisted that the majority in the Diet did not represent the "will of the people," revealing their contempt for the competence of the voters to choose. Nevertheless, unless the intellectuals are very careful in approaching the subject of "enlightening the voting public," they will further alienate themselves from the common strata of Japanese society. After the hypertheoretical per- spective of the intellectual results in a lack of realism in answering more concrete questions of daily...
...themselves and discussion groups in the best democratic tradition. Such an ability, however, was confined only to those who shared the same views. Once they were placed in a situation where they had to express their opinion to other groups of people, they ordinarily evinced an attitude of arrogant contempt and self-righteousness, refusing to create a channel of communication. Their sense of "crisis" as well as their emotional commitment to "orthodox Marxism" compelled them to negate altogether the possibility of parliamentary gradualism...
...advertisers, " fails to provide enough "man's work"--work which young men can believe in and give themselves to. The victims of this system are the juvenile criminals, whom official culture refuses to take seriously as human beings, but also the young organization men who, though lost in self- contempt, are afraid to leave what they call rat race...