Word: contempts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Harry Truman was saved from haberdashing by failure, Jimmy Carter was saved from peanut farming by success. Angels of ambition -Admiral Rickover's "Why not the best?", a Baptist preacher's contempt for spare-time religion, his engineer's want to shape things so they are right, a touch of anger at the neighborhood's black-baiters-wrestled him out of the warehouse and into wider fields...
...liberal Democrats, notably Averell Harriman and Frank Church, privately advised against appointing Schlesinger. So did his successor, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the Pentagon's uniformed chiefs, who felt that Schlesinger sometimes treated them with contempt, also opposed him. Hoping to avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...
...finesse and a superlative performance by Dan Riviera as Thomas Cromwell. In a world populated almost exclusively by shifty, power-crazed and unreliable characters, Riviera's Cromwell outshifts them all. Here is a courtier who could have given Machiavelli lessons. His fingers heavy with rings, his mouth twitching contempt, Riviera is every inch the master of ruthless pragmatism, as uncomfortable with More's unswerving integrity as More is with the vicissitudes of court politics...
...vesque frequently displays a fierce temper. In one encounter with hydro executives, he slammed his fist through a glass desktop. What Lévesque's fellow Liberals found even more unsettling was his increasingly outspoken contempt for Canada's federal system. Said Lévesque: "I am first a Québécois and secondly-with rather growing doubt -a Canadian...
...life of the title institution, from a few minutes before opening to just after closing. The owner is a white man, hard-pressed by automated competition and a radical son who tries to talk revolutionary politics to the befuddlement of most of the black employees and to the great contempt of the one among them who is politically committed. A few incidents occur to liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor...