Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November 18). It was a well-written opinion that succintly captures the dilemma confronting all students here, especially seniors. However, when discussing the attitudes of Harvard students toward corporate professions, she seems to ignore the expectations that accompany the Harvard name. She writes that here it is "cool" to disdain those who enter corporate fields as greedy. I submit that if this is so, it is in large part because most of us face intense pressure to entere these "suitable" fields. When my parents tell me to look for "jobs that a Harvard graduate deserves," there is no need...
...veteran legislator and an unapologetic liberal. Enraged by recent allegations that the CIA might have financed a crack cocaine ring in her district--where poverty and black-on-black gang violence are common--she immediately called for official investigations. Though the congressional majority may regard her fervor with disdain, Waters has overwhelming support at home, where she has never won less than 75% of the vote...
...sophomores, should disdain to conceal our views and aims. Our dominance can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let Drag Night never be the same again. Let the pre-med hotline never ring. Let the upper-class students tremble at a sophomore revolution. We have nothing to lose but our homogeneity. We have a university...
Bette Midler, the designated frump in The First Wives Club, stares at Goldie Hawn's body with mixed feelings: envy for its sleekness and disdain for the work needed to maintain it. All those hours logged on the Stairmaster: "You climb and you climb, and you don't get anywhere." Why, Midler might be referring to women movie stars and women's pictures. In Hollywood it's one step up, two steps back, and sometimes you fall...
...volleyballers would have found some way to get around that, of course. People who hung around on Southern California beaches in those days--volleyballers, surfers, body builders--were among the first groups in postwar America to become known for openly displaying a disdain for authority and the American work ethic...