Word: contempts
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...feelings as he watches Lowell perform: Mailer felt hot anger at how Lowell was loved and he was not, a pure and surprising recognition of how much emotion, how much simple and childlike bitter sorrowing emotion had been concealed from himself for years under the manhole of his contempt for bad reviews...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...
...dangers are real, but not overwhelming. The ABA proposal narrowly limits punishable violations to leaks that are, "willfully designed...to affect the outcome of the trial, and that seriously threatens to have such an effect." Contempt rulings would have to be backed by juries, and according to Committee members, penalties would be reprimands and fines, not prison terms, for editors and publishers. The threatened interference with the first amendment seems mild compared with the toll now taken by violations of the sixth...
...amalgam of the incongruous and the comic is not enough. The film rests on a script by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) that settles for cringingly arch character names (Smokey Pickles, Mr. Noseworthy) and a naive blend of symbolism and social critiscism. What is worse, Charlie's contempt for the traps and trappings of wealth cannot hide an underlying self-pity, accentuated by Actor Finney's eyes-closed, O-God-I'm-so-weary-of-you-all posture. And Charlie's wild-blue-yonder exit is not so much escape as escapism-providing...
...Vienna, as was Freud. But Frankl has dismissed Freud's idea that human beings are driven mainly by sexual energy, no matter how broadly defined. Similarly, he rejects Adler's emphasis on power drives and Jung's turning back to vague, ancestral archetypes. He has only contempt for the reductionist, or "nothing-but" schools, which define man as nothing but a biochemical machine or nothing but the product of his conditioning or nothing but an economic animal. What is left? Only, says Frankl, the most fundamental of all human strivings: the search for the meaning of life...