Word: contempts
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...quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection of Cortazar's glittering tricky fiction invites the reader's eye to outguess the magician's hand. The mood that results is a profitless mixture of admiration and something not unlike contempt...
...comply with the order." It added that Nixon's lawyers were "considering the possibility of obtaining appellate review or how otherwise to sustain the President's position." This seemed to imply that Nixon might simply ignore Sirica's order, thus raising the ugly prospect of a contempt proceeding against him and an ominous power struggle between the Executive and Judicial branches. The following day, however, the White House announced that after an hour-long conference in San Clemente, the President and his lawyers had decided to carry the case to the appeals court (see box). Judge Sirica...
...busy learning how to cope with my new status--the status of "Beautiful Person," i.e. rich bitch. I found it pinned upon me like an epithet. Glamor, I was discovering, signalled at Harvard a licensed free-for-all for aggressive attention. Be it jealousy or secret sex dreams, contempt just depended on the particular form of the particular insecurity. Glamor got attention all right. Glamor meant a presence to be dealt with, to be talked about, gossiped about, pigeon-holed, and dismissed with a movie magazine's form of voyeurism. It was impossible to start anything with anybody off cleanly...
...almost destined to be part of the top. To reach the top, all you have to do is follow the game plan, roll with the punches, take the path of least resistance. The good life rubs off on every Harvard student, each one gaining a familiarity with comfort. Contempt for this comfort is rare, most are willing to passively accept it, a few even grovel for it. If you do not make any decision about what you want to do, in essence you will have decided to take the easy road and become coopted...
Easily the most defiant and least contrite of all the Watergate witnesses thus far, Ehrlichman's mastery of the situation was impressive, his debating skill sharp, his language fascinating, his face an all-too-expressive reflection of his inner disdain and contempt for his questioners. When the nomination of the hapless L. Patrick Gray as FBI director was doomed, Ehrlichman did not urge its withdrawal, but suggested coldly: "We ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind...