Word: disdain
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...love of country seem unfashionable and out of date in fair Cambridge, Harvard students have maintained a fashionable, post-patriotic pose that regards national pride with suspicion or outright disgust. The Harvard-spawned ruling class, fanning out across New York and Washington and Hollywood each year, often seems to disdain the people and the nation that it aspires to govern...
...taste of blood and ashes still strong, Harvard’s usual mix of one-world pacifism and knee-jerk anti-American sentiment seems muted. But already the whispers have begun, in dining halls and chat groups and classrooms, wherever our jaded, over-privileged meritocrats can quietly express their disdain for the simple, easily manipulated sentiments of the common man. If you listen closely, you can hear them—all those flags make me uncomfortable ... this is just an excuse for the Republicans to build up the military ... it’s tragedy, sure...
Players familiar with the imperfections in the courts, though, offer more disappointment than disdain...
...Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity...
...until Rall brought suit against Hellman for $1.5 million in damages. So to support the legal fees Hellman has put together this "Legal Action Comics." Although Hellman spins himself as a First Amendment martyr, one can safely assume that many of the contributors have been motivated more by a disdain for Rall than a love of the Bill of Rights...