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Word: contemptibly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contempt for most of humanity was complete. He regarded hatred as the one majestic emotion of this miserable species, for he who hates is at least passionately concerned, not docilely conformist. He poured all his venom into a novel, Kaputt, an account of Nazi atrocities on the Eastern front, and into a later novel, The Skin, describing barbarous conditions under the U.S. occupation of Italy. With a passion akin to Swift's, Malaparte sought to indict the cruelties of mankind. Readers were shocked, as he intended; they were also shocked by the fact that Malaparte seemed to be enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Clean, Well-Lighted Soul | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...federal democracies that boast supreme courts and written constitutions. Until this month, however, India differed from the U.S. in one vital respect: its constitution was thought to give its legislatures the same freewheeling power as that of Britain's House of Commons-a power to jail critics for contempt with no judicial review whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: India Follows the U.S. | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...Singh locked up in the Lucknow jail for seven days. He countered by getting two judges of Uttar Pradesh's highest court to spring him on bail pending his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The legislature countered by rearresting Singh-and holding the two judges in contempt. When the full state court issued a stay on the contempt warrants for their colleagues, the legislature issued warrants for their arrest. By that time, things were getting so hot that India's President could only buck the case to India's Supreme Court. The basic issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: India Follows the U.S. | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

Contrary to their traditional contempt for European politics, many Americans may look somewhat wistfully at Thursday's election in England; British voters were given not a quavering echo of an overly idyllic past but a responsible alternative to the incumbent government. Since an extension of the thirteen year Tory rule might well have destroyed the Labor party, Labor's apparent victory over the Conservatives is welcome, if only because it preserves a strong two party government in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And the British Election | 10/17/1964 | See Source »

...incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could not help condemning with contempt "that miscalled energy that expends itself in frivolity and destruction of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Insurance Against Lapidify | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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