Word: dismissiveness
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...undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations of "do-gooders and left-wingers," who are trying to wipe out beauty, sentiment and religion...
Luther himself, when he tacked his 95 theses on the door of a Wittenberg church in 1517, had no wish to split from the catholic and apostolic church in Rome. In a report to the assembly, the federation's commission on theology reported that "we cannot today casually dismiss the theological teaching of the Roman Church as patently false, unbiblical and unevangelical." Said Franklin Clark Fry, outgoing president of the federation: "Lutheran churches are prepared in spirit to reach out to brethren everywhere in a search for the fuller oneness of all who call Christ Lord in the midst...
...leaders in the Kremlin are going to be guided by their firm faith in the triumphal spread of their doctrine across the globe. On the other hand, I do not think that the present Soviet leaders will bring on war except by miscalculation or mistake. But we must dismiss as a pleasant daydream any thought of peaceful coexistence and apply ourselves to the challenge of all-out competitive coexistence-competition for survival...
Inevitably, Love crossed shovels with brawny opponents. When he stood up for the whole coal industry against John L. Lewis' demands for a three-day work week in 1950, Lewis in his fury borrowed from Shakespeare to dismiss Love as "a liar by the clock." Love good-naturedly responded by asking Lewis for one of his eyebrows to use as a toupee. Eventually Lewis backed down, and today the two old antagonists are friends. Hanging from the wall of Love's Pittsburgh office is an unlikely trinity of photographs: George Humphrey, U.S. Steel's late Ben Fairless...
...cavalierly dismiss James as naive and rambling. One can grimace at pragmatism as aesthetically grubby. But one does so only at peril of missing a most valuable set of lessons. The trinitarianism of James offers real hope for re-weaving the tangled threads of Western culture into a coherent fabric. And the emphasis on pure experience assures one that such a fabric would remain bright unfaded, vital. It is these two aspects of the thought of James that demand our closest attention. And it is these two aspects that compel us to recognize him as Harvard's greatest intellectual...