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...people of Brooklyn, Lupo knows the people of the North End and South Boston and Dorchester. He seems incapable of patronizing them. Although we see them as ignorant, fearful of change, bigoted, and often violent, their finer qualities--loyalty, pride, a sense of tradition, bravery--are also there. Scorn is reserved for the meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

Hardly anyone these days would dare seriously assert that a woman's place is in the home. But even a more moderate formulation-to the effect that women who prefer being at home should not be discouraged or derided-will evoke debate, scorn or silence in many quarters. So Senior Editor Timothy Foote found when he brought up the subject of Marabel Morgan, whose immensely popular books and Total Woman classes preach just such ideas. When the mere mention of her name at a Long Island dinner party brought a hostile response from the women present, Foote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 14, 1977 | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

File has caused both favorable reviews and a wave of wrath and scorn. As a self-appointed defender of the British royal family. Lord Mountbatten has denounced the authors' conclusions about an aborted British rescue plot. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has stonewalled on the question of whether U.S. archives also contain documents regarding American complicity in a rescue plot. The authors do not claim that their conclusions are complete. But they are continuing to dig-and the new findings, especially in the U.S. archives, may be even more sensational than the intriguing material they have already unearthed. David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russian Roulette | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Behind a mask of high disdainful scorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...wife. So scorn not him, who thee adores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

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