Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy. Even those who have come to his defense have demonstrated a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm. Of those newspapers and columnists who have commented, the great majority object both to the manner in which he entered the presidential race and his subsequent campaigning. Their tone ranges from outrage to contempt to a kind of weary resignation, as if to say, "Well, that's politics...
...offender: a failed male youth who wears the outcast labels of slum dweller, minority-group member, school dropout, unsuccessful employee and law violator. Stripped of selfesteem, this loser compensates by hating and hurting life's winners. And the U.S. criminal-justice system all too often reinforces his contempt for society's values. If the suspect cannot afford a skilled lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial. For the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences...
...dwelled on what he called the root problem of contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...
...this amiable little situation com edy, Paul Newman is Private No-Class Harry Frigg, who is so unskillful at concealing his contempt for the World War II brass that he is constantly being thrown into the stockade for insulting officers. But he is just as constantly escaping, which leads to the fulfillment of a dogface's daydream: instant promotion to two-star general...
...Tarsis does concentrate on are the locals, who, like Lipyan, are mostly interested in money, sex, their genuinely desperate love affairs and their unfulfilled lives. The townspeople practice adultery on the grand scale, get rich on tips and graft and, when party functionaries are not around, openly voice their contempt for the bureaucrats who try to order their lives. The few idealists among the party members are stubborn but become steadily disillusioned. For them, life is a double-cross. Not only do they love as hopelessly as others; their personal lives are wrenched out of shape by loyalty...