Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money and business. Their daughter (Rebecca Ellens) is a fanciful child who has learned none of the % social graces. The self-proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this highly symbolic play...
...finishes, twists his accreted features into a look of gentle disdain, and laughs, "Well, I'll be the first to admit it. Bert's story here has a few problems...
...Minister next week. Carlsson will speak at funeral services for Palme, scheduled for March 15 at Stockholm's city hall. A panoply of world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, will attend. In keeping with the slain Prime Minister's disdain for dictatorships, five countries--Chile, Afghanistan, Paraguay, Kampuchea and South Africa--were pointedly excluded from the ceremonies...
...entirely random process for placing rooming groups in houses. A random housing lottery would not stop students from self-selecting into groups of friends with shared interests and attitudes. Nor should it. But by diminishing the importance of stereotypes, a random lottery would help to eliminate hostility and disdain between people with different attitudes and lifestyles...
Something like the beliefs expressed by Grossman, Wirka and Stevens are widely shared by students today, but not universally, and I wonder that Harvard should impose those of Stevens on everyone. (If, indeed, it was prepared to do so had not the Clubs, with fine aristocratic disdain, withdrawn from the arena. In the event, former Dean of the College, John Fox, whom the Committee advises, was spared by the necessity of tipping his hand.) Is it not sufficient that the Committee on College Life have opportunity to persuade? Even as I would hope to persuade Harvard, other universities...