Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of literary taste makers. W.H. Auden, who saw early versions before he died in 1973, said that liturgically speaking, the Episcopal Church "seems to have gone stark raving mad." Much of the new edition is "pedestrian, second-rate, banal," snaps Literary Critic Cleanth Brooks. Episcopal leaders generally dismiss such remarks as elitist fuming. The people in the pews, they insist, are grateful for the new version...
...SAID the adoption of energy conservation and low-technology solar power represent the way out of the United States' dependence on imported oil, most people would dismiss you as a "freak" from California or the Sierra Club. However, if you told that to the members of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, they'd most likely slap you on the back and welcome you to the club...
...matter what is on the tapes, Connally's staff members dismiss them as unimportant. Says aide Julian Read: "At a time when the barn is burning, do you want to stop and take the fireman's fingerprints? Hell...
...very difficult for people who involve themselves in public issues to win a libel suit. These "public figures" must show "actual malice"; in other words, that a defendant consciously lied or was recklessly indifferent to the accuracy of what he published. Malice is hard to prove. Judges usually dismiss libel suits brought by public figures before they even get to trial...
...reach a point when you can't blame UFOs anymore, when the caveman comes out of the closet without Mars or Jesus, when the politically retrograde bare their fangs and call it a smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire Sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Final Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure...