Word: disdain
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...information in a democratic society. If the work is lengthy, detailed and at times unevenly, written, it never falls into the traps of dreary academicism. And if Barnouw is sometimes seduced by mere sentiment, the fervor he expresses and the anger he provokes are preferable to most intellectuals' disdain of broadcasting's industrial workings, programming sins and occasional newsworthy virtues
...give those artists a chance to construct ambitious works beyond the technological limits of their own studios. A total of 76 artists were introduced to a list of companies that ranged from Kaiser Steel to Ampex, from General Electric to Disneyland. Reactions to the proposed matings ranged from disdain to alarm. But eventually some 20 projects were realized...
...still keeps his nose pressed against the show-biz windowpane, almost innocently eager to talk to all the big celebrities on his very own show. It amazes him that they even remember his name, let alone want to be seen with him; yet he harbors an uncomfortable disdain for the shallowness he finds among so many "stars." He thinks of himself as an actor-writer-comic; yet he works best as a ringmaster of conversation heightened by the prodding of an acute mind?free associating, Perelmanesque, almost surrealistic. He does battle five times a week with Johnny Carson...
...impressive intellect-which ultimately spurs the winning recommendations and gives them decisive force. And if his reading of Metternich has taught Kissinger anything, it is that personality could ape beau-ideal, and that once in the seat of power, ultimate seriousness could be transformed to the diplomat's disdain...
Most emotionally secure men have sympathy with the rational aims of the Women's Liberation movement and show either amused tolerance or mild disdain for its more hysterical demands. But among some males, there is a different response. Shaken by the feminist activities and attitudes of their wives or girl friends, they have been drawn into a new social phenomenon: the men's liberation movement...