Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Italian businessmen seem to share Valerie's disdain for "those bureaucrats in Rome." After Olivetti's Underwood takeover, one industrialist exulted: "Americans used to come here as if they were visiting Black Africa, but they've learned a thing or two." To a man. North Italian businessmen dislike the "Italian miracle" phrase that the Italian press began to use some years ago. Says Leopoldo Pirelli, 36, third generation of his family to run the huge (1961 sales: $220 million) Pirelli rubber company: "There's more perspiration than is normally involved in a miracle." The secret...
...Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...
Since the formation of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1955, President George Meany, head of the old A.F.L., and Vice President Walter Reuther, boss of the old C.I.O., have eyed each other with deepening disdain. Meany thinks of Reuther as an energetic troublemaker. Reuther attributes many of organized labor's problems-such as declining membership and jurisdictional disputes between craft and industrial unions-to Meany's lackadaisical leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last week, at labor's Bal Harbour convention, the Meany-Reuther feud was a top conversational subject among the delegates...
...American Negro, and that he considered himself above the Africans. Baldwin himself was horrified at the realization that all this was some-how due to Wright's own American Negro heritage, which, after his rise to "acceptance", produced an irreparable breach between Africans and himself and an individual disdain for American Negroes...
...Client. And along with its catchy words, Madison Avenue has also exported many of its contagious habits. Mused one Frankfurt adman: "Not so long ago when a German ordered 'drei Martini' he meant three Italian vermouths. Now some of them are such purists they even disdain the olives...