Word: disdain
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...White's disdain for the UC is only surpassed by his disdain for employing the usual conventions of journalism, especially research. A more reliable way to find out what the UC is doing on behalf of the students is to talk with your representatives or to come to an actual UC meeting on Sundays at 7:00 in Harvard 104. Josh Liston '95 Co-Chair, U.C. Campus Life Committee
...psychological basics and the most primitive scare tactics. Nothing distracts him from arriving, via the shortest possible distance, at some not exactly subtle but inescapably gripping point. It ain't art. Nobody's ever going to call him the new Hitchcock. But there's something admirable in his disdain for high, fancy stepping, his heedlessly efficient drive to put us in touch with the primal ooze of our worst imaginings...
...this pessimism, you'd have to have a skull made of titanium to resist becoming jaded. My own cranium lacking any metallic elements, I happily joined in all of the sarcastic remarks and the hooting at painstakingly scrawled letters. Eventually I was caught between guilt and disdain. On the one hand, I was guilty of complicity in this huge racket. On the other, the American people didn't deserve my respect; each day we were flooded with constituents' petty concerns and poorly articulated requests. Whiners, the lot of them...
Thursday night's showing of "Love Story" was a true rite of passage for the freshman class. The event showcased Harvard's legendary dry wit, an intellectual disdain for the mawkishness of popular culture, and the disparaging insouciance of those who've made it to top. It was also obscene...
...presence of Iranians associated with Tehran's fearsome Revolutionary Guard has convinced Western intelligence agents that far more insidious activities are going on. This is the first time that Persian Shi'ite Iran has allied itself with an Arab Sunni Muslim government, but both regimes share a passionate disdain for neighboring secular states. Now that Libya and Syria are attempting to curry favor in the West by cutting their support for terrorist groups, says Philip Robins, Middle East expert at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, "Sudan is the best ally Iran...