Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite this disdain for modern bureaucratic technique, Andorra's government rocked along smoothly enough until one day in December 1958, when somebody left $168,000-two-thirds of the entire Andorran treasury-lying in a cupboard drawer in the Casa de la Vail. Next day the cupboard was bare. Also missing was Ramon Riberaygua, 36, scion of a leading family and secretary of the Council of the Valleys, who on frequent visits to Spain had developed an un-Andorran taste for luxury. He kept a mistress in Barcelona and enjoyed paying big tips at the Hotel Ritz to have...
...things, clothes. Reporting a survey indicating that 37 million U.S. women make an average of 20 garments a year per family. McCall's Patterns noted that one of its foremost pattern purchasers is Gypsy, turned do-it-yourself seamstress, possibly as penance for all those years of professional disdain. . . . In Vogue as the ninth in the magazine's series of "fashion personalities": pool-eyed Princess Radziwill, 27, third wife of a Polish nobleman turned London businessman. The Princess, married once before, is the former Lee Bouvier, and like her equally attractive sister, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, is now expecting...
Your quotation from President Goheen's address at Princeton [in which he said "the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth"] is one demanding grave and immediate consideration. It is indeed a thing of "gloom, doom and disdain" when we hear a scholar today observe foibles recognized some half a century ago by the scholar William James...
...specialist, Edwin L. Dale Jr., 36, now in the paper's Paris bureau after five years in Washington, chided his fellow intellectuals for their consistently conformist view of free world, and especially American, "failure." James Reston, the Times's Washington bureau chief, could contain his pent-up disdain for President Eisenhower no longer and dashed off a classic column of political satire. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop donned sackcloth in public and did penance for the venial sin of optimism...
...outside was anything like the one described at commencements across the U.S. last week, 1960s graduate would do well to forget that $600-a-month job offer and bury himself as far back in the library stacks as he can squirm. The mood was one of gloom, doom, and disdain for the U.S. and the road it is traveling: ¶ Princeton University President Robert F. Goheen, baccalaureate address: "Near and far the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth; opiates of half-truth are seized in preference to realities of fact and need . . . We find ourselves...