Word: disdaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard may not provide athletic scholarships, but that's no reason to conclude that Crimson coaches disdain recruiting...
...take their Sabbath day off, and four weeks after the court voted 6 to 3 to invalidate an Alabama law that allowed a moment of silence for prayer in the public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that...
Immigrant parents, however insistent, are not always successful in excluding distracting American influences. Le Vinh's jet black hair is cut in a moderate punk style, and he sports fashionable, wide-shouldered jackets, to his father's distress. "He would have me in the preppie look," says Vinh with disdain. Retorts Le Giau: "When I went to school we wore uniforms." Imelda Ortiz finds herself in a tug-of-war with her mother over American teens' signature apparel: tight jeans. "My mom says I look like a Solid Gold dancer and makes me take them off," complains Imelda. "She looks...
...mission also proves dicey for Berger. His writing, as always, is polished, but some vital tension is missing from Nowhere. The author's style of fastidious disdain -- half repelled, half fascinated -- seems to need a setting of solid, preferably seamy realism, like Reinhart's tacky heartland or Neighbors' fringe suburbia. Free floating over the fantastic topography of Saint Sebastian, he tends to lose his sting. Moreover, between streaks of zaniness, Berger allows Wren to lapse into his old college lecturing habits. Underlining a point about Saint Sebastian's preposterousness that would be best left implicit, Wren asks, "Did things make...
...adept politician, Volcker is said to disdain politics...