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...independent variety that would keep Portugal as distant from Moscow as from Washington. Many foreign observers believe Saraiva de Carvalho is essentially an opportunist who might even join with military moderates to topple Gonçalves and the Communists. The one certain thing is his disdain for politicians. Returning to Lisbon last week after a nine-day visit to Cuba-where he participated enthusiastically in the anniversary celebrations of Fidel Castro's revolution-he announced at the airport that last April's elections, which gave the Socialists a plurality, were irrelevant. Said he: "The dynamic of the revolution...
Where Banfield runs into most of his problems is in his definition of lower class, which, he admits, encompasses a large percentage of the nation's black people; hence the label "racist" plagues Banfield where ever he goes. In a certain sense that title is undeserved, because Banfield's disdain does not end with lower class blacks--it pervades to all members of the lower class...
After the last jump had been cleared and Sunday's addition to the 35,000 people turnout began filtering out of the polo grounds, I noticed the previously repugnant odor was not nearly as noticeable. Nor did I look with disdain at the gentleman, who with a most affected-sounding English accent said, "Say that was jolly good fun now, wasn't it?" Jolly good indeed...
...create all those tunes about broken hearts and long lonesome roads. One suspects that what attracted Altman and Tewkesbury to C. & W. was both its audience ("These are the people who elect the President," a political advance man comments early in the film, with just a trace of disdain) and its tradition. Country-and-western basically dresses up folk music in rhinestones and spangles, making hay out of Americana. A lot of it is slick and sweet, and its sanctimony can curdle the blood. Altman used the music like a continuing, slap-happy dirge...
Aristocratic Disdain. Biographer Skidelsky, who teaches at Johns Hopkins, works hard at creating a sympathetic and revealing study of the root of Mosley's fascism. A shameless elitism and a longing for an almost feudal sense of self-sufficient community, a revulsion against war caused by his experiences in 1914, and an aristocrat's disdain for the middle class are primary elements in Mosley's career. The author goes soupy, however, when it comes to explaining Mosley the man. A comparison to Goethe's Faust-who used evil to gain a higher good-is material...