Word: disdainful
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...Administration deserves our disdain the "Students for a Just Peace" deserve our utmost contempt. By betraying their fellow students through providing more identifications they have sought to win support for themselves. Acceptance of their evidence by the Administration shall be construed to be nothing less than the University's complicity with rightist organizations...
...them." So contend Harvard Government Professor Karl Deutsch, University of Michigan Biophysicist John Platt and Political Scientist Dieter Senghaas of Goethe University in Frankfurt. The three scholars recently completed a major study of creative achievements in the social sciences, which they summarized in Science magazine. Countering the lingering academic disdain for behavioral studies as either imprecise esoterica or common sense festooned with jargon, the authors make a convincing case that the breakthroughs in social science have been real, cumulative, and possessed of as much practical impact as discoveries in pure science and technology...
Despite his tempered disdain for movies, Scott is devoted to acting?in any medium. And like many who excel at what they do and are aware of their excellence, Scott sometimes speaks offhandedly of his art. Still, his comments add up to a valuable handbook for actors (see box, page 66). No matter what part he plays, Scott surrounds himself completely with the assignment. "If you get enough around you, like a cloud," he says, "some of it's got to rain through...
...judicious editing it would be easy to turn Marin into a founding father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White Waves on Sand, Maine, the arches and pylons of Brooklyn Bridge, the scud and sough of an Atlantic sou'wester-was obdurate and irreducible for Marin, and had always to be returned to, loved, and above all, declared...
...once he had found it he let it run amuck. For this reason, Louis differs from almost every other hero of rise and/or fall narratives in that he is totally devoid of development. The same logic that complains his refusal of Mazarin's legacy in reel one, explains his disdain for forks in reel three. Money, forks, meats, music, for Louis it is a question of quantity and not quality. Louis remains stationary, while reality, i.e., appearances, kaleidoscope about him. He is heroic in preposterousness...