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Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee were uncovering more leftists back East, the Hollywood Ten were cited for contempt, and Wayne decided that it was time to help out. "An actor is part of a bigger world than Hollywood," he announced. Together with Scenarist Chase and such rigid stalwarts as Actors Adolphe Menjou and Ward Bond, Wayne helped to form the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Wayne may have seen himself as a patriot. But next to some of his red-white-and-blue-blooded colleagues he looked a little pink...
...committee stated that, "A university committee unlike a court, has no way by the power of bailiffs or the use of contempt proceedings to protect itself against disruption or harrassment, not is there any precedent at Harvard for public meetings held to act on cases of possible Faculty misconduct...
...space program, in fact, who detect behind Armstrong's supercool all-American image a rigid character who has more faith in the perfectibility of machines than of people. "He's all scrubbed up on the outside," says a NASA official, "but inside he has nothing but contempt for the rest of mankind that isn't willing to work as hard as he does...
...romantic roots of bourgeois culture; one of them discusses the horror men inspire in one another and in particular the horror of touching human flesh, explaining thereby love-making as an attraction through hatred. But basically they are as anti-humanist at the citizens they terrorize, and their contempt for other men leads them both into bad romantic politics ("to overcome the horror of the bourgeisie, we need more horror") and immoral actions (cannibalism...
...cloaks deep feelings of anger and frustration at their inability to slow the inevitable or at least relieve their patients' pain. The patients, in turn, become even more despondent. Confronted by apparently diffident nurses, they begin to complain that they are lied to about their condition, treated with contempt and given inadequate attention...