Word: disdain
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...members are unequivocal in their disdain for electoral politics. Just as Minard says of D-SOC, "We are not all revolutionaries," Lise Newcomer '77, of NAM, says determinedly, "We are revolutionaries." But from then on, the definitions get a little vague...
Success eludes him, cheats him, keeps driving him. It is his only goal because he means to have it for an identity, and for a kind of bludgeon. He subsidizes his brother, but he does it with disdain, just as he acquires his property -as much an assertion as an investment. Quixotically, Buddy offers his grandfather, who tends a poor garden in his backyard, any plot he wants. But the old man refuses. He is fond of Buddy, but he is well on to him. Beautiful as it is, the land was badly got, and so for him will remain...
...Beginning Was the End (Praeger; $7.95), the enthusiasm of Author Oscar Kiss Maerth spills over in red ink. The book, subtitled Man came into being through cannibalism-intelligence can be eaten, bears all the markings of pristine eccentricity: a big theme, a closed system of self-perpetuating logic, a disdain for accepted thought, no specific scientific references, no index and no bibliography. Kiss Maerth, who is described as a man born in Yugoslavia who spent many years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko...
...Giscard d'Estaing promised to bring "change" to France. So far, at least, he is delivering. In a carefully staged show of disdain for the pomp of the Gaullist years, he walked rather than rode to his inauguration at the Elysée Palace, wore a business suit instead of tails, talked for a few minutes about a "new era" instead of delivering an oration about the glories of the past. Over the next few days he announced the first of several measures to "relax" French political life. He decreed an end to widespread wiretapping by government snoopers, promised...
Upstages Headliners. "They all think I'm a freak," says Maggie. But despite the gypsy fortune-teller exterior, Scotland's princess of wails is about as funky as a Girl Scout. Music is her life, Maggie maintains, although she does not disdain the idea of marriage. She cannot pass a child without smiling, and youngsters in return respond to Bell's fresh-faced charm. "The high point of my career," she reflects gravely, "was when I came to the U.S. and found that Americans are allowing single people to adopt babies...