Word: contempts
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...often accused of emotional aridity, a charge which is beneath contempt. One has only to listen to Persephone, the slow movement of the Piano Concerto, Apollo, Orphcus, or the lullaby of The Rake's Progress. But every bar of his music is lyrical in the highest sense, that of selfless restraint. Chekhov, a similar artist in this and other respects, once wrote to a friend, "The more sensitive the matter in hand, the more calmly one should describe it-and the more touching it will be at last." Stravinsky has composed in the belief that feeling is deepest when least...
...says that pictures are more important than words and contemplates a society of inarticulate tribal emotions based on instant sight and sound. Or Herbert Marcuse, who teaches that protesting words are as empty as air in a technological society where power is concentrated in a few hands. Such a contempt for language makes people impatient with the orderly processes of thought. No sooner is something glimpsed or considered than it is demanded. Not only is dialogue destroyed, but so is rationality, when protesters insist upon immediate capitulation to their "nonnegotiable demands." This is what infants demand -and totalitarians...
Despite his contempt for most of its current tenants, Kelman is clearly in love with some mythical image of Harvard. As he tells us several times in the book, "few things are more fun than going to Harvard." But sometimes he gets so carried away with his passion that Cambridge readers may wonder just where Kelman has spent the last four years...
...positively regains the self-command which makes possible pure heroic action. The two suicides- as triumphs over Caesar- represent the greatest heroic acts possible in the world. Suicide is the last act to make life comprehensible. It is purified of self-contempt and vain resignation by the capture, through the suffering of shame, of that internal fire which burns the will clear. It is exonerated from the deeper vanity of despair, or storic contemptus mundi, by the perfect fusion of hand and heart. Decretas dispels all ambiguity...
...understand the brotherhood and appreciate the diversity and the heterogeneity within the black community without having contempt for blacks whom we disagree with. We must see ourselves moving as a nation on national enemies like discriminating major companies, headquartered in New York with sweat shops in North Carolina or Mississippi and a consumer market in California...