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...Hepburn in Woman of the Year, playing a liberated female journalist, only to fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object of contempt to feminists rivaled only by Marlene Dietrich's trudge into the desert in Morocco...
...told-you-so satisfaction that pollution, congestion and violence have borne out his dire prophecies. He is too concerned with preventing further ravages by what he refers to as the "mechanical world view," the "megamachine," "technological exhibitionism"-never, thank God, the military-industrial complex. He has nothing but contempt for scientists who dream about dashing off into space or recreating life on another planet, when they have made such a botch of this one. He quotes a mathematician defending the costly moon project: "Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
Sobel was booked for disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace, and Pennington for contempt of court and disorderly person. The same charges that faced De Simone will be brought against Whitney...
...Radcliffe Merger," Harvard Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1970) that the public statements of high Harvard administrative officials with regard to the proposed merger of Harvard and Radcliffe reflect unspoken prejudices against women. The striking feature of Dean von Stade's letter is the ugly clarity with which he expresses his contempt for women. Yet the letter is important not as an expression of one man's personal views, but as a uniquely honest exposition of the opinions shared by high officials of the Harvard Administration. It is these men who formulate official Harvard policy. The implications should be clear for such...