Word: contempts
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Popkin could agree to answer the three remaining questions in full, complying with the court order and as the courts say, purging himself of contempt...
...professional commitment to the national interest, but he never determined who should define it. His contempt for the petty weaknesses of others made it difficult to vest anyone but himself with that authority...
That position qualifies as moral arrogance and contempt for democracy. When combined with a vigorous interpretation of the American role on the world scene, it has produced a bitter domestic political atmosphere and a depraved Asian policy that the country cannot abandon. But Kennan combined it with a limited role for America. His comments on popular American culture imply no particular enthusiasm for it. And his discussion of Midwestern provincialism show little respect for the natives' capacity to manage their foreign affairs. He calls the region "a great slatternly mother, sterile when left to herself, yet immensely fruitful and creative...
...finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction at the "big shows" like Pendleton and Odessa. Called "Killer" because he rides the horses way past the sound of the buzzer until they finally drop dead from the strain, Tom takes out all his rage and self-contempt in the saddle...
...come to dominate the American electorate in this election year. The hypocrisy generated by seven years of undeclared war has come home to America this fall. Scandals, the immensity of which would have crippled any Presidential candidate in the early sixties, have barely ruffled Nixon and his henchmen. A contempt for the public unwitnessed since Warren G. Harding's "front porch" campaign in 1920 as the central feature in a campaign where the incumbent is afraid even to mention his name on stickers and billboards. A year that started off so promising with a string of McGovern primary victories...