Word: disesteem
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...Crimson is fully entitled to disesteem Henry Kissinger, as you let your readers known in your editorial of October 14th, "No Welcome for Kissinger." But The Crimson should also get its fact straight about the Nieman-Kissinger relationship...
...introduced into the English language. Judith Levine inspected every dictionary in the New York Public Library and found only two that included the word misandry. One defined it as hatred of man; the other defined it as hatred of man; the other reduced the term to "dislike or disesteem...
...powerful handgun in the world, and in the course of the book, blows several heads clean off. Listen to him describe John Leonard kill a party of eminent essayists, into whose company an over-generous critic placed him. Epstein too is in attendence, but of all contemporary writers I disesteem John Leonard easily heads the lists. I do not want to be of his company. Indeed, at the very mention of the name John Leonard it seemed that Montaigne threw his mantel across his shoulders and left the room, followed by Pascal delicately lifting the skirt of his vestments; Hazlitt...
...Pentagon. The war in Viet Nam, the cover-up of the massacre at My Lai, the service club scandals, the inability to answer North Korea's flea-bite seizure of the Pueblo-all these things and more have combined to bring the American military establishment into the noisiest disesteem since before World War II. Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, a liberal Democrat-but no doctrinaire foe of the armed services -has won national attention with his disclosures about military overspending beyond original estimates for weapons procurement, notably on the giant C-5A cargo plane...
Displayed to Broadway audiences as a comedy of character (TIME, Dec. 19, 1960), Flowers seemed artificial and soon wilted under critical disesteem. Rearranged for moviegoers as a formula farce, the show still seems artificial but the artifice somehow seems right-in a puppet show, who needs reality? Director Norman Jewison deserves three small cheers for the skillful manipulation of his principal puppets. Actor Randall, who as always looks like an unsolicited testimonial for psychoanalysis, achieves a socko series of belt-stretching belly laughs. Actor Hudson, who is sensitively cast as the half-dead hero, has seldom performed so inoffensively...