Word: contempts
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...charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards, in fact, Jaworski has often been a maverick. He defended a liberal school-board member who was under furious attack from conservatives, and he was chosen to prosecute former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett for criminal contempt for trying to block desegregation...
...students still need the phony, commercial kind of motivation that grades provide. Until values change and the change is reflected in our institutions, abuse of the pass/fail option will take its place among purchased term papers, casual cheating, taking cinch courses, dropping out, and other familiar expressions of student contempt for American education...
...EVEN in the United States, the source for much of the world's oppression, the desire for justice is not extinct. George McGovern went through a cycle in the 1972 presidential campaign; first ridiculed, then respected, the admiration turned to contempt again after he was written off as a hopeless loser. But for me, McGovern's finest moments came in those last few weeks of the campaign. He tried to talk about Watergate but I sensed that his heart was not really in it. As he frantically flew around the country in those last days he talked about Vietnam...
...Contempt (Godard) 7:35; weekend...
...these men literary conventions only pose limitations and rules to be broken, and narrative becomes hopelessly narcissistic. In John Barth's story, Lost in the Funhouse, for example, the author interrupts to explain the narrative techniques of the short story while the tale is in progress. Barth then shows contempt for these forms and simultaneously complains that his story is getting nowhere. Like his protagonist and the other anti-novelists, he is lost in the funhouse...