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...general target of the protest were the bureaucrats in University Hall, who the drivers said had treated them with contempt. So when Buildings and Grounds officials, who operate the shuttle service, said Thursday they were willing to at least listen to the drivers' requests, the shuttle stalemate was over...
...against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught in snapshots and thrown into a drawer, are obvious and pallid...
Imagine the contempt and derision with which this was received in Langdell, Baker, Littauer, William James and the Computer Center. With all the important skills necessary to manipulate a great university, the godstruck old fool had cited something as intangible as a belief. For it was not only Pusey's belief in God which was pitiful and funny: it was his belief in belief of any kind. Nothing more amuses the men who run this university--and their compatriots who run our society--than men with beliefs and no power...
...prosecutor and judge were furious and threatened Cucinotta with contempt and criminal charges for wiretapping. Finally Cucinotta persuaded them that the tapes contained nothing. Hazel was convicted and sentenced to five years...
...himself for four days. In a two-hour session in his courtroom, Scott stressed that he would not retreat on the desegregation plan; he said it would be unfair to the 322 whites already at Jones Street School if the holdouts remained at Buckeye. But Scott also dropped contempt of court charges that could have meant heavy fines for the trio's parents, Buckeye officials and Lee. Said Scott: "I think it would be wise to forget this whole thing...