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...probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have nothing but disdain toward this unscrupulous demagogue . . . In any event, the 'McGoverniks' whom Gingrich fears did not get to the White House in 1972."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...more and more people are seeking the answers to life's mystery in what he calls "the real thing" rather than in astrology or pseudo-religion. On both sides of the Atlantic, the book is being used as a text in college philosophy courses. And despite the author's disdain for New Age spirituality, Thomas Hallock, marketing director of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, suggests that Sophie's World appeals to the kind of reader who made Jonathan Livingston Seagull a touchy-feely...
Bonfili pointed out that efforts to impose reform last year were met with disdain. "Last year we voted to ignore the referendum," he said. "Last year we couldn't even get close to a majority...
...Multi-Culti Books: Under this heading I include both I. (Third) World literature and 2. the whiney, self-righteous tirades against those books by conservative reactionaries. The fascination with the books in the former sub-division emerges from the liberal disdain for hieracrchy. Classical Mongolian verse simply cannot be any better or worse than Milton, the true multiculti declares. I'll grant the fundamental equality of all the world's literature when the deans of leading medical schools across America supply their students with Rwandan anatomy text-books on the grounds that they're all the same anyhow...
...main concern is a matter of principle. The very manner in which AAA has initiated this petition drive shows both a disregard for Asian Americans who hold opposing political views and a disdain for democratic principles...