Word: contempts
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...Attorney's office reopened the long-dormant civil contempt case of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, on Friday by filing a disclaimer of electronic cavesdropping with the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...phony Rolls hood is attracting attention elsewhere: the executive offices of Rolls-Royce of America. "Our attitude," says a company spokesman, "is one of total contempt. The Rolls hood on a VW is like a giant's robe on the wizened body of a dwarf...
...Weed Factor ushered in a new vein of American fiction in the early and middle sixties including Pynchon's V. Heller's Catch-22, and Coover's The Origin of the Brunists. What these works all share is an abiding contempt for the boundaries of traditional realism and traditional notions of seriousness. The example of the early moderns, Joyce in particular, had been terrifying. In a novel like Ulysses, the most incidental details were somehow necessary. Instead of trying to compete on these terms, the novelists of the sixties rejected such lofty ambitions and produced fiction where everything was superfluous...
...vote on the contract that ended a two-week teachers strike came after the release of four strike leaders who were jailed last week for contempt of court. Under the terms of the new contract the base salary will increase from $7550 to $7900 as of January 1, and will rise to $8150 next September...
...McGovern staff. Then, having at last paid their dues to McGovern, the columnists could sound objective as they announced a coming Nixon landslide and scolded the post-Eagleton McGovern for not living up to the conventiontime notices on his efficient and pragmatic organization. The columnists wrote with contempt--each of them seeming to say. "My God, I could run a presidential campaign better than this...