Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lamely offers herself to her lunatic husband/captor, actress Mariel Hemingway (who portrays her) virtually redefines the word "heartbroken": Her eyes and posture convey the sudden wisdom, tragic in its belatedness, of a naive individual who finally realizes that she has not been loved at all, but only used. To dismiss Stratten's murder just because she journeyed into a corner of the world which most people find distasteful and irrelevant would be a waste; her fate provides a valuable lesson for all women, especially the young, throughout American society...
Such exposures eventually cooled the public passion for made-to-order miracles. But, as the author acutely notes, it will not do to dismiss the Victorian period as a simpler time, when the naive were easily swayed by con men and shadowy ladies. Today every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than...
...think I'm one of the suspects that is usually rounded up," laughs Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn when asked if he's thought about becoming dean of the Faculty But Bailyn. One of academia's most prominent American historians is quick to dismiss the idea...
...Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate took no action to confirm his appointees. The White House stormed that the three had distinguished civil rights records and were being sidetracked only because they are opposed to school busing and racial and sex quotas in hiring...
...mainstream of America." He added that the proposal, if approved, "may make it too easy to characterize the movement for nuclear arms control as kooky." The referendum will not make instant converts of the conservative white House or congressman. It will make it easier for them to dismiss the broader based concern for arms control as extremist and to continue their dangerous policies...