Word: contempts
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...lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...
...decades, however, an avant-garde of populist architectural historians has been looking at the strip and its larger-than-life iconography without conventional middlebrow contempt. The movement's manifesto is Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi's examination of crowd-pleasing architectural symbolism and buildings designed primarily for drivers. The irony is so American, so pop: cultural highbrows celebrating unself-conscious lowbrow vulgarity...
Federal judges are not known for their patience with uncooperative witnesses and foot-dragging litigants. But never before, to anyone's recollection, has a member of the federal bench cited the entire Roman Catholic hierarchy for contempt of court. Last week in New York City, however, Federal Judge Robert L. Carter socked the Catholic bishops of the U.S. with an eye-popping fine of $100,000 a day until they comply with a court order. The bishops' sin: refusing the judge's instructions to give suing pro-choicers internal church documents on the church's antiabortion campaign. The critical underlying...
...with the church's unwillingness to comply, the judge charged that the Catholic groups had "willfully misled" the plaintiffs and had "made a travesty of the court process." Nonetheless, at week's end he agreed to delay the huge fines, giving church lawyers until May 16 to appeal the contempt citation...
...testimony before a House Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee, two New York City real estate executives told how they helped Marcos and his wife Imelda secretly acquire New York real estate. Faced with prosecution for contempt of Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration...