Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact...
...that, Jean-Claude Killy has added a superb disdain for danger and an almost superhuman capacity for concentration. Nobody takes a slalom gate quite the way he does-hurtling round the pole with his body slung out sideways, almost parallel to the snow. Nobody else has quite mastered his avalement technique of accelerating on the downhill turns-rocking back on his haunches and thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When...
Graffiti & Time Bombs. In China Is Near, Bellocchio abandons adolescent hostility for political disdain; the film makes fun of the full range of Italian leftist politics, from the filo-cinese (the sinophiles of the left) to the moderate Socialists, with their progressive pretensions and bourgeois attachments. China's political satire kicked up a furor in Italy. But U.S. audiences are likely to be more amused than annoyed by this story about a rich, bumbling professor who campaigns for local office as a Socialist, while his equally ridiculous Maoist brother harasses him and his colleagues with graffiti, time bombs...
...military setup, France is still a member of NATO. But it is beginning to show its lack of interest even on the political level: Foreign Minister Couve de Mur-ville sat in the political meetings and studiously read Le Monde. The French Foreign Minister's cool disdain for the proceedings was regarded by other ministers as a sign that France will exercise the option that becomes operative under the NATO charter in 1969 and withdraw from the organization entirely. De Gaulle reckons that since the U.S. will defend Europe anyway, France may as well enjoy the benefits...
...South Viet Nam as more or less within the U.S. sphere of influence, even though they regularly aided Hanoi. When the U.S. began intensive bombing of North Viet Nam in 1965, the Kremlin's line on the war swerved noticeably; Russia had to get mad or suffer the disdain of the rest of the Communist world. It not only vastly increased aid to the North but stiffened its attitude toward contacts with...