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When Tanzanian Miler Filbert Bayi first appeared in international meets three years ago, other runners viewed his style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun...
Newman has actually travelled little distance from the times of Matthew Arnold, the English social critic who a century ago wrote with disdain of the uncultured"Populace" and the anarchy they produced. The anarchy in this case is not political but literary; Newman is unable to tolerate the untidiness caused by the social changes of the last decade. For Newman, like Arnold, there are two real classes: those who know, and those who don't. For all his insight into the relationship of Watergate and America's literary decay, Newman remains oblivious to the fact that the distinction between...
...Chicago Daily News, finds the Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post...
...mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary disdain in a sentence or two. His fictional colleagues may be clever; he is clairvoyant...
...leading historians continue to disdain the study of film, reels and reels of valuable footage will continue to sit, unused and unstudied, in musty archives. Most of the footage shot more than 50 years ago, on nitrate-base film, has already deteriorated, and those films that were not transferred to more durable acetate are lost to future historians forever. Film archives are in a general state of disarray. There is no comprehensive international film catalogue listing credits, content, and location of prints, and it seems unlikely that much will be done to rectify this deficiency until historians begin to realize...