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Despite such contempt for the G.O.P...
...movement with some hauteur: "To those of us who remain committed mainly to the ex ploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism." The article is, among other things, very funny, and a pure expression of Didion's contempt for cant...
After that bitter time in the Soviet, any effort to cure mankind's ailments was written off by Muggeridge as "liberalism," and thus beneath contempt. Education, he finds, "is a stupendous fraud perpetrated by the liberal mind on a bemused public, and calculated, not just not to reduce juvenile delinquency, but positively to increase it, being itself a source of this very thing." As for modern art: "A Picasso, after a lifetime's practice arrives at the style of the cave drawings in the Pyrenees." Progress, for Muggeridge, is arrogant optimism, a shaking of man's tiny...
...unbowed, Yant began putting out a weekly investigative newsletter, called the Public Eye, from his home. It folded after eight editions. Embittered and $100,000 in debt, Yant left town for New Philadelphia, Ohio, 67 miles away. As for Sheriff Weikel, he served seven days in jail on a contempt citation for bugging the courtroom where a hearing had been under way on his brutality and theft charges, but the charges were later dismissed on a technicality...
Perhaps we are so taken with Skripkin's speech because we are in a similar position. Assaulted by Sellars' sound and fury, we feel as confused, trapped and embarrassed as Skripkin in his cage. Why does Peter Sellars have so much contempt for his audience that he goes so far out of his way to make things inaccessible...