Word: disdainful
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...Unlike other Presidents-except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson-Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
...download the Taguba report at Fox News, on the grounds that the document is classified. It also orders them not to discuss the matter with friends or family members. The emailed memo was leaked to TIME by a senior U.S. civilian official in Baghdad, who did not hide his disdain for the "factotums" in the Pentagon. "I do wonder how incredibly stupid some people in the Pentagon are," he emailed TIME. "Not only are they drawing everyone's attention to the report - and where it can be seen - but attempting to muzzle people never works...
...that I haven’t been looking forward to senior year, which, after all, seems to have a lot to recommend it: Roommates returned from sojourns abroad! Being 21—finally! Senior Bar! The right—nay, responsibility—to radiate a mature disdain for overeager first-years in section! The acquisition of business suits and of stockings and of shiny, pointy-toed pumps! My own bedroom! After the housing lottery, my roommate had to forcibly restrain me from visiting our new room with a tape measure. I had wanted to better envision how I would...
...last year of college and thus one’s last real year of socially acceptable immaturity. Seen in this light, all of the advantages of senior year are double-edged. Being able to drink legally means the state thinks you’re an adult; the disdain for first-years is tinged with envy for their lack of cynicism; those business suits will need to be worn to interviews somewhere. The single bedroom prefigures adult isolation: gone is the forced, riotous intimacy we enjoyed in the Yard...
...growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide to Ottawa that explore Harry's connection to the Stoics, St. Augustine, Jung and Freud--and the renewed interest in children's literature that her books have fostered. But even those who view her with alarm or disdain pay her the same tribute as those who call her a savior. Both attest to her power over readers and the lessons she teaches through the stories she tells. There are tales of conversion when some critics actually get around to reading the books and find a message about good...