Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madison Avenue. The moderates show equal-if more restrained-disdain for the radicals, believe that the slogan "Black power!" is meaningless in substance and pernicious in impact. If Stokely Carmichael, 25, who first popularized the cry, were not heading S.N.C.C., said N.A.A.C.P. Chief Roy Wilkins on TV's Meet the Press, he "ought to be on Madison Avenue. He is a public relations man par excellence, and he abounds in the provocative phrase." Rather than submit to the philosophy of black power, many moderates, both white and Negro, have left-or been forced from-CORE and S.N.C.C...
Saxon responded with characteristic disdain. "McClellan's basic opposition," he said-pointedly omitting the conventional courtesy of a prefixed "Senator" or "Mr."-"has been to the chartering of new national banks, particularly in Arkansas." He dismissed the report itself as "a phonographic repetition of the same exaggerated allegations we have previously answered in full." Retorted McClellan: "Suppose I do own a little bank stock. Does that justify Saxon's inefficiencies...
...discovered that he had so completely identified himself with his battalion that he refused demobilization to spend a year with the Army of Occupation. The experience is so subtly conveyed that the reader is not surprised. Chapman's war is told without bitterness (though with an almighty disdain for the political bunglers and profiteers and civilian patriots who prolonged the agony), and this sets it apart from the more famous Goodbye of Graves or the tone of braggadocio-disguised-as-cynicism that taints Hemingway's Farewell to Arms...
...examining his own craft. "The one specific remedy for vanity is laughter," wrote Philosopher Henri Bergson, "and the one failing that is essentially laughable is vanity." Is it only society that is laughable today? Or is it the humorists themselves, too proud or fearful or full of disdain to fulfill their function? That function is to be society's mocking bird, not its vulture. What the U.S. can always use is something that everyone has in him but only a true humorist can bring out: a good laugh...
Friends since their undergraduate days at the City College of New York, where they both developed a boundless disdain for ideologies of both the right and left, the two editors emphasize fact and information in their magazine, avoid simplistic political stances. "Too many intellectuals," writes Kristol in the current Public Interest, "express decided views on automation, disarmament, urban renewal, and all sorts of other matters on which they are inadequately informed." Adds Bell: "If the function of the intellectual is to criticize, I say to the intellectual: specify-translate ideas into concrete programs...