Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Buckley told Smith he would not appear and treated Vassar and the class of '80 to some vintage scorn. An American literature professor at the college, for instance, had decried Buckley's involvement in the McCarthy era thus: "It was Buckley who offered pridefully in those days the cast of mind and insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching...
Seldom in recent years has the U.S. been subjected to so much scorn and ridicule. In Israel, the Knesset formally rejected the U.N. resolution, which Premier Menachem Begin described as "repugnant and unjustified." American Jewish publications, reflecting Israeli opinion, were unimpressed by Carter's disavowal. Brooklyn's Jewish Press charged that Carter had sold out Israel for oil and described his action as a "stab in the back" to all of its readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily...
...curtain of the fairy chamber opens slightly, and Tink, who has doubtless been eavesdropping, tinkles a laugh of scorn...
REPORTING for The Crimson, I have spoken with many administrators who are normally inaccessible, and I do not believe they are morally callous. But they are blinded by their own contempt for students--an attitude they may not acknowledge but is nonetheless pervasive. I sense this contempt in their scorn for idealistic political positions, the anger with which moral questions about University conduct are greeted, the condescension with which they answer student concerns. One administrator once told me he could not respect student activists because they always ended up as lawyers or businessmen, joining the system they vowed to break...