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...Goodbye. Camille.”) These final, stilted words have special significance for Paul, and for Godard; they’re actions, almost stage instructions, written to a man whose job it is to write as much for motion pictures. Godard himself wrote the film, and “Contempt,” it’s title in English, is widely regarded as the product of his own separation from French actress Anna Karina, who had starred as the female lead in several of his films up to that point. But something’s amiss. Instead...
...school, mathematics just isn’t cool. Long division, standard deviation and the hypotenuse seem be, at the very least, a source of ennui for most students. Sadly, this harmful contempt for math has produced an educational culture that lacks both the enthusiasm and foundational support to produce proficient math students. Given the shortcomings of American math education, a concerted effort must be made to address the dearth of appreciation for math and invert the all too common declarations of “I hate math!” This cultural malaise remains specifically an American problem. According...
...Collins' editors know that old words die hard - and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond...
When men disagree, the steps to resolution are reasonably clear and unsophisticated. Acts of physical violence are visited upon one another's person or property, and the whole thing blows over. Women? Nu-unh. We savor the discord. We draw it out. We share our contempt with our friends, like a useful stock tip, or really good salsa. And then we all go hate together: a mutually encouraging group activity for when the book group gets quiet...
...Quinn. “The panel was valuable,” Birdsall said. “It was enlightening to listen to the panelists share their spiritual backgrounds with each other.” During the key-note address, Quinn described her transition from feeling “contempt and disdain for any kind of religious person” to now no longer calling herself an atheist. “Religion touches everything in our lives. You can’t be a truly informed person unless you understand religion,” Quinn said. Rachel A. Esplin...