Word: dismissiveness
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...Stone, in his "Reply to the White Paper," tends to dismiss the discovery of a ship running arms on February 16, 1955 as being insignificant. This one ship had enough arms aboard her to re-equip approximately 15 per cent of the hard-core Vietcong force and enough ammunition for 20 full scale battalion actions lasting 24 hours each. One hesitates to think about the effect just ten such shiploads would have on the course of the Vietnam...
That editor Thomas E. Petri was badly misquoted is beside the point now; as with the book, we would rather dismiss past problems and concentrate on looking ahead. Our purpose is to help the GOP build itself into a relevant political force for the future...
...heard you were going to be in town today and wondered if you would like to listen to the Debate with us-I'm having a Listening Party at 1028 Connecticut Ave. and would love it if you came and brought anyone you like-" Then, as if to dismiss the whole affair as unimportant, she added, "But I expect you are exhausted from your travels (I loved your story in the N.Y. Herald Tribune) and are looking forward to relaxing and watching TV at home-if so, I understand perfectly...
...practice, democracy at the very least requires periodic free elections in which a representative majority of citizens may elect (or dismiss) a government. Most political scientists would demand more: one or more organized opposition parties to guarantee genuine choices, freedom from arbitrary arrest or intimidation, a free press, an independent judiciary, mechanisms guaranteeing the rights of minorities, and a system to protect or improve the economic well-being of all citizens...
...Goal. The mating of artist and academe may never be perfect. Cornell recently celebrated its centennial with a four-day exploration of "The Universities and the Arts" at Lincoln Center in which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement...