Word: dismissiveness
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...dismiss "bebop" so lightly [TIME, May 17]. After all, jazz is the only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...
...doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...
...charging the Committee with its task, the Associated Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association did not explicitly urge the soliciting of rank-and-file graduate opinion. In this light Senator Saltonstall is prone to dismiss the idea of polling the entire Alumni body with reminders of impracticality and expense. As an impartial voice the Alumni Bulletin deserves the Senator's attention. The Bulletin backs the poll, pointing out that the estimated $5000 cost of printing and mailing a ballot with explanatory covering matter to 100,000-odd Alumni seems small in terms of the certain import of the results...
Very few Germans have any real remorse for 1939-45. "That was war," they say, and wave a hand to dismiss even the atrocities. They flock to Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
...Board of Regents liked less. As friend and supporter of ex-President Homer Price Rainey, another maverick, he long ago earned the regents' enmity. Rainey refused to be bossed by the regents, would not remove John Dos Passos' U.S.A. from the library shelves, would not dismiss teachers whom the regents considered leftist. When Rainey was fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents...