Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...
...dealt with my homosexuality no better than men. I would have expected that a woman would have been relieved not to have to fear a man, his strength, his physical dominance, and the usual male-rapist sexual mentality. But I have found among my female friends an element of contempt for a man they regard as incapable of being threatening. One woman I know quite well reluctantly agreed that, although for opposite reasons, neither women nor men know how to deal with the opposite sex when on equal grounds...
ASUBTLE BUT important theme in the play is the occasional contempt the roommates feel for each other. This underlying plot reflects the insecurities, self-doubts and envy all freshmen inevitably experience...
...account of such indecency might spoil her agreeable picture of Burchett, and this pleasant "peripatetic fellow" might have seemed better worth contempt than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under which all Vietnam now groans, and which the ill-managed American effort bravely tried to spare the south, is tempered by any particular humanity. James W. Muller...
Shelledy earned a jail sentence. In what is being called a stunning setback for press freedom, the Supreme Court last week declined to review his contempt citation for refusing to identify the "police expert" in a pretrial deposition for a libel suit filed against him and the paper by Caldero...