Word: contempts
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...life in Anatolia, the wharfs in Constantinople, and manners in Greek households. There are fine bits of protest, too, like a glimpse of a busy American sea captain nonchalantly ignoring an aged stevedore who has collapsed under his burden. During the voyage, the faces of crew members reveal their contempt for the immigrants. The brunt of the social criticism loses its bite, however, when put beside a hero whose noblest image of America seems to be a towering dollar sign...
...Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness, the boy takes his cues and values from the mother. "I want your handwriting beautiful, darling," she says, and the writer in Miller is given a beginning...
...kind of charges made by the defendants could "drive from office every decent man who ever sought it." Attorney William Dwyer found the defense "one long tortured attack against Mrs. Goldmark. They've said every conceivable dirty thing about that woman they could say without being held in contempt of court...
...time, in the "giant hothouse" of the Mediterranean coast, Maria's feelings seem about to thaw. Contempt for the old man gives way to a reluctant compassion; a friendship with four vacationing children restores for a while the "miraculous gift of liveliness." But feeling exacts a price: "Suffering, which had been impatiently biding its time, hurled itself upon me." As memories come flooding back, Maria at first tries to reject them and then flees...
...examine Powell's financial records. But subpoenas in noncriminal cases cannot be served on Sunday, the only day Preacher Powell can readily be found in New York. Finally nailed at the end of summer, he nonetheless failed to show up in a state Supreme Court. Rubin then started contempt of court proceedings; once more, Powell ducked court orders until a U.S. marshal caught up with him two months later in Washington. Powell's appearance in court, scheduled for last week, was put off again because President Johnson chose to address Congress that same...