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...Utter Contempt. Another unkind cut was delivered by the Republican but anti-Goldwater New York Herald Tribune. In an article on Miller's career, the Trib disputed the claim made in his official biography that he "played a major role in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals during the famous trials at Nürnberg." Actually, Miller spent only four months with the War Crimes Office, performed nothing more major than examining captured war documents. Said Miller lamely: "I never claimed I was one of the trial lawyers...
...Moses' contempt for tokenism was central to the MFDP's rejection of the compromise. Moses contends: "We are not here to bring politics into civil rights. We are here to bring civil rights into politics...
...Moses' contempt for tokenism was central to the MFDP's rejection of the compromise. Moses contends: "We are not here to bring politics into civil rights. We are here to bring civil rights into politics...
...Temple University in 1953. He fought with the Marines in the Pacific in World War II, turned down a battlefield commission because "second lieutenants don't live long in the Marines." His career as an attorney is flecked with contention. He has been rebuked by judges, fined for contempt of court; both the city civil service commission and the state liquor control board have asked that he be barred from practicing before them...
...full cry. A New Statesman pundit called Dr. No "the nastiest book" he had ever read, full of "two-dimensional sex longings." Breathing even more heavily, a professor in the New Republic discovered mythic overtones and likened poor Bond to Perseus and St. George. Ian Fleming could find only contempt for anyone who tried to read anything into Bond. He quite frankly wrote for money, and did not like his hero very much, although, he admitted, "I admire his efficiency and his way with blondes...