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...opening the library, concerts and some courses to the public, Botstein has also improved relations with the conservative townspeople. He explains: "Many of them used to feel that the people on the hill thought themselves better, had a direct line to the truth, and held the locals in contempt. Now the clash has vanished...
Meanwhile a few newspaper publishers have joined the fray finally, taking upon themselves liability for the protection of sources used by their own reporters. In many instances now, the publisher, not the reporter, is the one who will be held in contempt of court if a court order to violate confidentiality is ignored, and there is a lot of difference between sending Punch Sulzberger to jail and sending one of the 300 reporters in his employ...
...Radcliffe comprise as confounded and uncertain a subject as race relations. But while students treat the latter with a certain delicacy and seriousness (if not always with an appropriate understanding) their approach to sex -- particularly its political and psychological aspects -- has of late been characterized by fear and contempt masked in frivolity...
Normally AFL-CIO Chief George Meany treats former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa with the silent contempt he might reserve for a scab laborer. But a few weeks ago, Hoffa delivered a diatribe that Meany could not ignore. Publicly championing a Teamsters assault on Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, Hoffa declared that the fledgling AFL-CIO affiliate must be stamped out because "Chavez is incompetent." An angry Meany responded at a press conference by charging that the Teamsters, whom he booted out of the AFL-CIO 15 years ago, were guilty of "strikebreaking...
...certain "contempt" for organized religion on the part of younger people, Thompson said, may be decreasing the church's Sunday population. "Most of our old members are dying, and there are not many younger ones to replace them," Thompson said. "The younger people say they're not interested in the double standards and hypocrisy of the organized church. I think they may be right...