Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everywhere these days. "Unfortunately, college kids don't even dislike American business--they just ignore it," reads a recent ad in the popular press. Everyone has an opinion about the problem, but no one seems to know just what causes it. Whether through apathy, indifference, or disdain, college students today just don't seem to want to go into business...
...Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers are collapsing and on a campus where fraternal orders are viewed with some disdain, was the means by which Choate members avoided their own anxiety in having to justify their organization to the rest of the world...
...sternly antiCommunist, assertively German, and a strong supporter of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. He owns 15 magazines and newspapers, including the popular Bild-Zeitung (literally, picture paper), that account for 31% of West Germany's circulation of weekday publications, 88% on Sundays. Reflecting the disdain that most West Germans feel toward the unkempt young radicals, Springer's papers call them "political beatniks," "crazy half-toughs," and "the matriculated...
...songs may camouflage the missing book but they cannot carry the show. Joel Grey tries to do that but the way his character has been written forces him to exhibit either a cocky disdain for others or an egomaniacal worship of self. It is more fun to watch Grey's nimble feet than his distressingly overworked features...
...wooed and headlines to be won. In Rockefeller's case, total abstention from primaries, or even holding out for a relatively easy run in Oregon, has special risks. Those who accuse him of not being a "regular" Republican would count it as further evidence of his disdain for the party apparatus and for traditional procedures. Besides, Nixon can hardly be counted on to stand still for the next couple of months...