Word: disdained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican Party's image of cold-heartedness and disdain for the poor, especially inner-city Blacks, has always disturbed me. So when I went to the Republican National Convention this August expecting to be turned off (and planning to vote for Gov. Michael Dukakis), I was pleasantly surprised to find that the words "Republican" and "caring" are not necessarily mutually exclusive...
...beyond that there is no consensus. It is true that many panhandlers do not want to work and disdain whatever minimum-wage jobs are available. "There are charities and agencies that will take care of them," says Jennifer Hassan of the Red Cross. "Yet most won't even go near these organizations because they know they have no excuse for not working." But others are disabled and cannot work; still others are eager to carry a bag, wash a window, weed a yard, pump some gas, for whatever they can earn. William Harris, 50, works the parking...
...life's frustrations for aficionados of the crime novel is the discovery that there are loved ones or esteemed friends who, having sampled the genre, view it with boredom or disdain. The most irritating aspect of the belittlers' criticism is that it is often correct, at least as applied to the humdrum majority among the hundreds of mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals and spy stories published in the U.S. each year. Characters are frequently sketchy, plots more elaborate than coherent, dialogue archly unnatural, and exotic settings tacked on rather than integral to the narrative. Many authors seem to think that...
...problematic aspects of her analysis are compounded by the breathless tone which infects the book. The author seems stunned to realize that Picasso ate, slept, drank, defecated, etc. And when she reveals that Picasso actually did mean and petty things, Huffington writes with a disdain and lack of comprehension that only reveal how deeply she still sees the master artist as a mythic figure...
Designated hatchet. His disdain for Dukakis is deep enough to make Ronald Reagan this campaign's perfect hatchet man. The President "is eager to do it," says a Bush aide. Last week he upped Bush's anti-Duke epithet "Brookline liberal" to "true liberal...