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...Geneva, even Kvitsinsky scoffed at the notion that the British and French forces were any match for the SS-20s; comparing them was, he said, "a sandbox exercise." Nitze noted wryly that Kvitsinsky's apparent contempt for the British and French weapons negated the Soviets' own argument for counting them in an agreement. In another unguarded but revealing moment, Kvitsinsky blurted out the real purpose of the Soviet position: "You have no business in Europe...
...when Emma moves out, Aurora discovers that her child has no corner on inappropriate males. After Flap takes a job in Des Moines ("You can't even fail locally," cries Aurora, whose contempt for her son-in-law is her one immutable, hilarious quality), a plaintive note creeps into her obsessive phone calls to her daughter. Parent is now becoming a dependent, in need of a confidante, especially with that astronaut orbiting around...
Last, but perhaps most relevant for our time, would be the argument of some feminists that pornography incites contempt for women and thereby encourages men to exploit and abuse them, as Paul Snider did Dorothy. The correlation (and presumed casual relationship) between media representation of women and their mistreatment has been a prevailing feminist maxim for so long that it has assumed the aura of fact in some circles. Since the '60s there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those...
...informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...
...acknowledge her as an artist. And a poll in the Cedar Bar or any other watering place of the New York avant-garde would simply have echoed Picasso's dictum that women were always "goddesses or door mats," never painters. Add to this Krasner's prickly contempt for diplomacy with critics, and one can see why for most of her life her work was scanted as "minor," an appendage to Pollock's. Yet though she had to contend with bigotry, her dislike of groups always stopped her from presenting herself as a "feminist" artist. Hence...