Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendant bellowed at Essex County Judge Leon Kapp, who sentenced him to a near maximum 2½-to-3-year prison term and a fine of $1,000 for illegally possessing the guns. "You represent a crumbling structure of society!" yelled Jones, who had earlier earned a 30-day contempt sentence for his outbursts in court...
...Deserved Contempt. The Lewis column over which Wilson sued did, in fact, take a lot of liberties. It appeared under a headline reading THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE LIFE OF HAROLD WILSON, with a picture of Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and his personal political secretary, Mrs. Marcia Williams. Miss Lewis wrote that "during the Profumo scandal, the Tories' Quintin Hogg nearly brought the House down when he tried to defend Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, saying he didn't understand the fuss about Profumo's private life, since there were 'adulterers on the Opposition front bench.' That...
...rollers, Wilson was represented by none other than Quintin Hogg, who announced that "the Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...
...quality of a series of animated tableaux. The actors however perform with great competence-especially Lou Castel as the matri-fratricide, Paola Pitagora as his sister, and Ciliana Gerace as the mother. The tableaux are often visually stunning, in the best tradition of Italian neorealism: the ennui and self-contempt of family meals at which the cat steals food from the blind mother's plate, the seedy despair of rooms where beds are never made, the solemn revelry of a dance in town...
...would not surprise me if many of the clergymen who are here today feel some of the same contempt for organized religion that our unreligious or anti-religious brothers feel. They know better than we do the long and bloody history of evils committed in the name of religion, the long history of compromise and Erastian subservience to political power, the long history of theological hair-splitting and the burning of heretics, and they feel more deeply than we do the hypocrisy of Sunday (or Saturday) morning. Perhaps the things that made some of us leave the church...