Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contempt is doodling disguised as art. French Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, My Life to Live) has built a reputation as an improviser who makes up masterpieces as he goes along. In this inflated drama of marital disintegration, based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, spontaneity looks more like slackness. Contempt subjects Godard's staunchest admirers to a loyalty test that precious few will pass...
Freyre's recommendations show his basic contempt for native civilizations. Intermarriage is necessary, in his view, to raise the level of the natives. Such an attitude can only lead to a further polarization of the world between white and non-white. If Asian and African leaders make racial appeals, it is precisely because of this racist attitude on the part of the Europeans. Let the white man stop imposing his various schemes of "tropicalism" on the non-white world and give them a real freedom of choice. Rogelle Reyes GSAS
...been rationalized in colonial America where limited precedents existed. However, precedents concerning procedure for admitting evidence are numerous today. Already there are misgivings about the judge who will convene the Grand Jury in this case. This is the same judge who threatened to jail acting attorney general Katzenbach for contempt. Judge Cox is the one who refered to a gathering of Negroes on "Freedom Day" as a "bunch of chimpanzees...
...pufflicity implied "intimate dealings with gamblers, that plaintiff had been engaged in gambling orgies and that he was heavily indebted to various gamblers, shady characters and persons of ill repute." The item, he said, had caused him "great pain and mental anguish," and had held him up "to contempt and reproach...
...Young Socialist Alliance whose indictments under the state antisubversive law for campus speechmaking, quashed by lower courts, have been appealed by the state to the Indiana Supreme Court. Wayne State lifted a ban against Communist speakers on campus, then retreated and barred two who had been cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The same pair addressed 300 students at the University of Michigan without incident. "The tighter you put the lid on," says John Gustad, provost of New College, Fla., "the bigger the explosion is likely...