Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects. A pitcher, he soon learned, is the twitchiest of all athletes. He squirms, writhes, fusses and tugs at himself like a man with hives until he is ready to throw a baseball. Then, for a fleeting moment, he freezes and fixes the batter with a look of sheer disdain...
...Thursday's CRIMSON. Amused, because the article was obviously written in a hurry without complete knowledge of the entire ROTC program. Disappointed because, although I don't believe he intended to do so, the comments of the writer appeared to associate him with those who pretend a tolerant disdain for things military; an attitude that is all-too-prevalent, but which denies everything which Harvard and American education should represent...
...what most viewers wait for is Hitchcock's deadpan, devastating comments on the show's Bristol-Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended...
...approaching the importance which undergraduates attach to their studies and to extra-curricular activities is depicted in Weller's book, however. Brant, the young, troubled assistant professor going nowhere, and unable to "find" himself in the role of an educator, is pictured with a right amount of pity and disdain. Plainly, the great value of Not To Eat, Not For Love is that is treated the Harvard undergraduate not as an adolescent facing an adolescent's problems, but as a man facing problems involved with particular environment and situation. Although the novel's excesses are many, it was the first...
Well might Connecticut's Fairfield County be indignant. Well might the fire bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with...