Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribune of victory the energetic pragmatist, who likes to voice his cornfield contempt for theoreticians, now demanded to be regarded as the first of living Communist theorists. Soviet speakers had lately taken to eulogizing their new Vozhd, or supreme chief, as they did Stalin, in personality-cult terms ("Initiator and soul of our glorious work...
Betty Ann alerted the Coast Guard, charging that his craft was not seaworthy. Her lawyers went to court with another sheaf of charges, ranging from kidnaping to conspiracy to commit contempt of court. But for the time being, at least, The Wanderer was at sea. At 42, Sterling Hayden, in his own words "a decent enough man, not too bright perhaps," had finally made his breakout...
...regular Army men who have enlisted for three or more years, and who make up the backbone of the peacetime Army, on the whole have great contempt for such a short hitch, and feel that the RFA would make a poor soldier if pressed into action now. Most RFA's themselves although very happy with the short tour of active duty, would agree that their six months' training has not given them enough preparation for a war situation, but most are optimists and believe that was is not very imminent. If they thought it were, most would not have committed...
...orphan' any more. In joining the church I have the assurance that God's in his heaven and the world's all right, that's true. But a churchgoer who looks on going to church as a kind of private home-insurance is beneath contempt. God doesn't need our prayers; he won't do us favors for them. Christianity is a power-and a living force to help us live to the full here and now. It is affirmation of life...
...generalities in exotic latitudes-from the South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become a man of the world, perhaps traveling...