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...entering a buraku. Their psychological suffering can be intense. Said one youth: "Once a group of high school friends began discussing outcasts without realizing I was one. One boy held up four fingers, meaning the four legs of an animal; it's a symbol of dislike, fear and contempt. Imagine how I felt...
Despite their dissimilarities, they share some traits. One is a contempt for bureaucracy. "In the bureaucratic societies," Kissinger once wrote, "policy emerges from a compromise which often produces the least common denominator, and is implemented by individuals whose reputation is made by administering the status quo." Both tend toward perfectionism. Kissinger drives his National Security Council staff to strive for that state of refinement in their position papers and memos that he likes to define as "meticulous" ? a favorite adjective of approval...
...Peter Bridge was cited for contempt and jailed for 20 days for refusing to go beyond a story about official corruption he wrote for the defunct Newark Evening News: Edwin Goodman served 44 hours of a 30-day sentence for refusing to hand over WBAI-FM tapes of a prison riot; William Farr has been in jail since Nov. 27 for refusing to disclose his source for a Los Angeles Times article about the Charles Manson murder trial...
...both. "Notwithstanding his feebleness of purpose and littleness of mind, his ignorance and his prejudices," the Spectator editorialized after her uncle's death, "William the Fourth was to the last a popular sovereign; but his very popularity was acquired at the price of something like public contempt...
...Council, Ackermann always seemed willing to speak her mind, even when it meant confronting powerful City Manager William Corcoran, and especially on her pet issue of rent control. When Corcoran chose the rent control commissioners without consulting with the city councillors, Ackermann was first to attack him: "(He) showed contempt for the four councillors and members of the library board and the blue-ribbon panel on a rent control administrator by not consulting with them," she said at the time...