Word: dismissiveness
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Because of the Council's lack of a democratic base, it not only cannot presume to speak for all undergraduates, but tends to dismiss problems other than those dealing with policy as beneath its consideration. In the next two years, undergraduates are going to be faced with the problem of overcrowding, of incorporating married veterans into the life of the College, and of the eternal pocketbook. The only medium through which students will be able to demand and obtain action is through a Council sensitively alert to their problems and eligible to speak for them. The only way such...
Zeckendorf, who has helped to expand the assets of his firm tenfold in the last eight years, likes to dismiss his many big operations (in hotels, theaters, apartments, oil wells, piers, night clubs, a small railroad, and smaller shopping centers) as "making grapefruit out of lemons." This grapefruit, which he hopes to pluck by 1948, would be his juiciest...
Physicians, says Alvarez, too often dismiss such patients as neurotic or hypochondriac, argue that a stroke is impossible without such classic signs as muscular weakenings or loss of feeling in parts of the skin. But Alvarez insists that the brain can sustain thousands of tiny strokes with no symptoms beyond changes in personality. Nothing can be done to cure such patients, he admits, but doctors can emphasize that strokes may be far apart...
Beloit's students dress with meticulous conformity, coed/sin blue jeans and bobby sox, boys in loud shirts and windbreakers well smeared with mud and lipstick. They dismiss nonconformists as "study-bugs" or "groubies" ("much worse than a meatball"). Beloit's boys & girls mix business and pleasure: between Cokes and ice cream at the Union last week they boned furiously for midyears...
...voice. Mme. Richard was offered, privately, a million francs ($20,000) to call off her crusade. She spurned it, publicly. It was predicted that licensed prostitutes would merely be chased to the streets, already dangerously crowded by some 8,000 unregistered streetwalkers. There was even an attempt to dismiss the crusade with a wisecrack. Leered one bordello operator: "We are honorable merchants. . . . We are left with but one alternative-to take to the maquis...