Word: contempts
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...family nose for individual use. Yet his verse can darken majestically, as in The Cuirassiers of the Frontier, his remarkable evocation of the last years of the Roman Empire. It is a verse rough with contempt...
...Historical novelists seldom write in anger. In telling about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his killer, John Wilkes Booth, and the near-farcical trial of Booth's fellow "conspirators," Author Stacton is clearly angry, but not at Booth; shrewdly enough, he treats him with pitying contempt. His target is the injustice that was done not only to Booth's largely duped friends but to the murderer's family as a result of his tragically stupid and criminal...
Sprung 18 months early for good behavior during a five-year stretch for income tax evasion. Racketeer Frank Costello, 70, left federal custody in downtown Manhattan, headed north to Riker's Island workhouse to finish a 30-day New York sentence for contempt of court. When freed on this final rap, the old bootlegger, whose take from assorted enterprises once approximated $4,000,000 a year, plans to return to his Sands Point. L.I., estate "to tend my roses." But the U.S. Justice Department has other ideas. It hopes to send the now denaturalized immigrant on a longer journey...
Died. Albert Deutsch, 55, muckraking medical journalist who campaigned against maltreatment of mental-institution inmates in The Shame of the States and of juvenile delinquents in Our Rejected Children, was temporarily cited for contempt of Congress during his successful 1945 battle for reform of VA hospitals; of a heart attack; in Horsham, England...
Another near-explosive issue was President Pusey's refusal of permission for Pete Seeger, Kennedy's classmate, to present his folk songs at Harvard after his indictment for contempt of Congress (before the HUAC). Faculty reaction was generally unfavorable. Pusey relented, explained that he had expected a political rally, and ruled that Seeger could visit the University if he agreed to sing only. The University does not want to get involved in cases still pending in court, said the President...