Word: disdaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Todhunter, the Brown water polo team's 6-ft., 5-in. scoring machine, rarely smiles in the water. Instead, with Olympian disdain, he calmly crushed all opposition--including Harvard--leading the Bruins in scoring with nine goals as they swept their five games at Blodgett...
...successful Little League coach. Bobby or Timmy or Pete, a freckle-faced 9 or 10, crooks his slim arm and strains to pop that first bicep. To the side is a Betty Crocker mom, beaming at her new young man. And off in the back, pug nose sniffing in disdain, is Kid Sis. "Boys' games!" her elfin derision seems to say. "Showing you're strong. Proving yourself. Making a muscle ? eeeeeuuuuu...
When asked it Harvard's disdain for radical economics expresses supreme confidence in the American capitalist system, despite such major warnings of instability as the Great Depression and out current crisis, Eckstein replies. "It might I think it we had another big depression, we would add a fourth radical lecture [to Social Analysis 10]" This seems to voice the general feeling in the Economics Department that radical thought a peripheral to the real work of the field...
...discussion of style, let alone postmodernism. A spreading architectural fashion, postmodernism seeks to reconnect functional glass-box modern with historic architecture. Says Roche: "I don't see history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time when most American architecture students were taught to disdain the lessons of the past, I had to draw acanthus leaves and the classic columns. Back in Dublin, we got rigid, old-fashioned Ecole des Beaux-Arts training...
...OTHER characters worthy of mention are Richard Rich and Thomas Cromwell who plan More's downfall. They are power-hungry, jealous of More's idealistic control over the king. Lawrence Aronovitch plays a truly despicable Cromwell as his whole face gleams with disdain and contempt. His hatred is so strong that we are stonewalled in our attempts to find anything redeeming...