Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhower's reference to the immobilisme of the French Fourth Republic was--and--is apposite. Though its origins may have been different from the "politics of dead center" which has afflicted the American government, the effects, Hughes argues, have been the same. Hughes goes beyond Eisenhower's contempt for politicans in explaining the President's frustrations, and suggests that the failing lies deeply rooted in the country's most basic attitudes towards government and politics: "For not even the presidency can grandly excel the range of wisdom, the strength of will, the clarity of purpose of the people it must...
...revolution the hidden leitmotif of postwar American foreign policy in its desperate attempt at stabilization of the status quo, with the result that American power and prestige were used and misused to support obsolete and corrupt political regimes that long since had become the object of hatred and contempt among their own citizens...
Despite Adenauer's towering contempt for him. "Uncle Ludwig" is by far the most popular politician in the country; a recent public-opinion poll showed that he is regarded by 25% of the voters as the best man to succeed Adenauer, whereas Socialist Leader Willy Brandt is favored by only 12%. But with federal elections only two years away, 32% of those polled now look on the Socialists as the "most sympathetic party," while only 30% so regard the C.D.U. A three-man C.D.U. committee chosen to name the next Chancellor appears convinced that only Erhard can reverse...
...many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs him on to further embroideries on how he killed his wicked old father. Then father appears-and Christy Mahon, the golden-tongued playboy of the western world, crumples into a cringing figure of contempt before all his fine new friends. But whisht! Christy-boy gets himself up, chases his old da outside, and with a whack of a loy, lays...
Barbro, on the other hand, finds that as a woman minister she is able to communicate with young people, especially girls, "who are able to talk to me about things they could not tell a male priest." Barbro is well liked by her parishioners who seem to share her contempt for the Pauline shibboleth. "The time we live in " she says, "requires that both men and women help carry out and spread the teachings of Christ. Tradition is to help people, and not to bind them...