Word: disdains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summer School itself, also proud of the services it performs, is yet almost abnormally sensitive to criticism. The disdain that Harvard students on vacation feel about the Summer School has officials believe spread to the local community, and they hope that no one will say anything nasty about the day camp appearance of the Yard during Wednesday afternoon Punches...
...Andrew Greeley of Chicago in the Roman Catholic magazine The Sign. "But it is at least possible that within the outer froth of religiosity there is an inner core of authentic religion hardened by the firmness of Divine Grace ... If intelligent Catholics stand apart from it in disdain, they may run the risk of putting themselves in the same class as those fastidious Italian noblemen who wondered how any good could possibly come from the Poor Man of Assisi and his ragamuffin band of followers...
...after Stalin's death, when "somebody named Khrushchev" beckoned Togliatti and other Red leaders to a secret meeting of the Cominform in Prague, Togliatti refused to go, sent a deputy instead. How much further this disdain went was described last week in the magazine Azione Comunista, by Giulio Seniga, once a key man in Togliatti's Communist Party. Togliatti did not even meet Khrushchev until the famous 20th Party Congress in Moscow, wrote Seniga. On his return to Italy, Togliatti said of Khrushchev's famed outburst against Stalin: "He was like an elephant walking on eggs...
...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
This dislike is somewhat understandable; the San Diego Strong Boy has never gone out of his way to be helpful to sportswriters; he is not an "I am as you desire me" individual. He has shown a proper disdain for the over-washed American public, spitting at fans and jumping over the barricades to assault his attackers...