Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide open contest all the way, with the referees showing a rare disdain for whistle-blowing. The Crimson was awarded only 10 foul shots and Dartmouth 13, in marked contrast to Saturday's game against Yale, in which Harvard was 45 of 56 from the free throw line...
...Disdain for the Flesh. Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who came to Canada in 1899 and now number some 14,000 strong. Believing that man owes his only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their...
Freedom House. Castro is treating outgoing refugees with disdain. Many were notified of their departure at 1 or 2 a.m., given only an hour to round up a few belongings while militiamen took inventory of their homes, then were bundled into a bus for the trip to Varadero. They were allowed 44 Ibs. of luggage; everything else belonged to the state. "I didn't bring anything with me," said one woman. "I was afraid they wouldn't allow me on the plane...
That drew sniffs of disdain from the C.D.U.'s right wing. But at least it brought the long-argued internal debate on reunification strategy out into the open. To that end, the Evangelical memorandum had served its purpose...
...musical comedy of Guys and Dolls. Major Barbara is a vehicle for a social philosophy: "the Gospel of St. Andrew Undershaft." Undershaft is Barbara's munitions-manufacturer father, who preaches a religion of "money and gunpowder." He insists that the worst crime of all is poverty. They who disdain wealth and prate morality are hypocrites. "Money is the most important thing in the world," says Shaw in his Preface, "It is the counter that enables life to be distributed socially." It is better to be a wicked rich man than a poor honest one. The former has power that...