Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake of asking Tuttle to ignore the court and grant him a jury in a contempt trial that grew out of his role in the University of Mississippi riots...
...degrees with the usual mixture of relief and pride, anticipating graduate work, careers-or the draft. But many of this year's college and university commencements were surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of tension. Conscious of their newfound power, students eyed their speakers with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...
Some pictures are put-ons that seem to plead for a tacit agreement with their audience: what is to be viewed is beneath contempt, therefore it is beyond criticism. Disarmed, audiences are presumably free to enjoy the movie in the same way they appreciate the sheer ghastliness of Mrs. Miller's wobbly warbling or the fruity falsetto of Tiny Tim. Two current examples come from...
...have a population of 150 and we want a stable commune--no tourists. We even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves "Rush." This allows them to get back...
Coles condemened the "coalition of black snipers and white ideologues" who are now taking up the dropped cause of Martin Luther King. "These are people who have fought Martin Luther King all the way--who have spoken of him with contempt... They are now desecrating him in death the way they have in life...