Word: disdained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Austin (Kevin Connell) is an uptight Ivy grad struggling desperately to sell his romantic "period piece" to a Hollywood producer. Lee, (Alex Norman) his older brother, is a macho, beer-guzzling thief with considerable disdain for Austin's sheltered intellectual life. When the brothers get holed up together in their mother's house, sparks fly. Insults fly. Silverware, toasters and golf clubs fly, too. By the end of Sam Shepard's True West, the kitchen is a disaster area worthy of any Harvard undergrad's living quarters. Not even the cast from Risky Business could clean up this mess before...
...Harvard Crimson drove ahead, oblivious to unpopularity and disdain, determined to tell the truth as they saw it, no matter who they offended," Kelman wrote...
Harvard has appeared in five straight NCAA tournaments. But despite the Crimson's consistent excellence, it has failed to win the praise of coaches from the hotbed of hockey, the wild West. Eastern schools have always been viewed with mild disdain by their Western counterparts...
This scattershot approach makes it difficult to achieve the cynically effective manipulation of TV coverage that was a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Sununu and White House imagemeister Steve Studdert express disdain for the obsessive attention to television and press coverage under Reagan. But a former top Reagan official points out that "control of the evening news and the headlines is one of the few tools available" for a President who was elected without any specific mandate, whose political opposition controls both houses of Congress, and who has little federal money with which to buy votes...
Many left-leaning professors saw Clark's appointment as a sign that Bok wanted to commit the Law School to traditional forms of scholarship. Even conservatives said the selection reflected Bok's disdain for the political battles, and his desire to make the faculty concentrate on academic issues...