Word: contempts
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...terribly proud man" who detested weakness in other people and often spoke "disparagingly of those whom he felt to be soft and expedient." Indeed, by the end of his presidency, "his pride and personal contempt for weakness had overcome his ability to tell the difference between right and wrong. . . He was out of touch with reality...
EVEN MORE TO THE POINT, the administration of Derek Bok--the man who, more than anyone else, profited from the strike and the ensuing tumult that forced Pusey's early retirement--has shown a familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rovosky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum...
...fellow World War II veterans in Nashua. Handsome Republican Congressman Phil Crane has already dropped in 20 times, charming the ladies at every stop. He has also pointed out to the legislature that charges in the Manchester Union Leader about his sex life and drinking habits were "beneath contempt." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker speechified at a Republican banquet in Concord. Former CIA Director George Bush preceded, and followed, all three. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker is planning a foray. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan, fearful of not winning big enough if he does come in, is petrified that he will...
...when the idealistic halo surrounding unions has deteriorated into a fearful contempt for leaders like Jimmy Hoffa and the New Orleans police chief "who'll wreck the city if our demands aren't met," Ritt has made a movie about places disenchantment hasn't reached...because unions aren't allowed. Norma Rae sharply reminds us that yes, there places where people work for substandard wages and who are forbidden to unionize. The scenes in the textile mill lack the blatant horror of coal mining but instead, they capture the numbing, back-breaking monotony which is just as lethal...
...There is an aching honesty to Quinlan's Annie as she tries to hold a mirror up to her troubled heart. Streep's alabaster features can convey icy disdain and mock merriment. Her voice is a bed of nails on which she some times lies in self-contempt. As Ruth, Dewhurst was a Rock of Gibraltar. Marchand is better suited to the role, a homebody with artistic impulses who needs a hus band for ballast. Though she has her cranky moments, Wilson's Aunt Helen is a lamp of sanity, and if anyone could lift the evening...