Word: scorned
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Lurid Dreams. When these contradictions are pointed out, Tom seethes. "He's really deeply sensitive," says a friend. "He wants to be taken seriously." Tom is so miffed by critical scorn that he has started a widely advertised critics contest, inviting the public to have a go at the spoilsports who "sarcastically attack the films they love" and soliciting pity for film makers "who feel so helpless when all of their work . . . is destroyed by some inflated critic smugly showing off his intellectual superiority...
...refuses to dictate his thoughts out loud, since this precludes the transformation of language through style. He notes unhappily that many young people these days scorn style. For him the act of writing and the elements of style remain inseparable...
...truths about Antonioni's work had been plotted out long before his current audience ever had a chance to come in contact with him. So much scorn was directed at his films that until The Passenger opened a couple of weeks ago in New York., he was remembered largely for his characteristically bad Zabriskie Point, instead of for the few artistically successful movies he had turned out before. The film critics had a lot of fun with that one; after all, what is better for dicing and discard than an ambitious, extravagant failure? If it is flamboyant enough...
...observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand" and an uncle who keeps trying to figure out which countries are "faking it" with Socialism. Miriam's often bewildered scorn can find no surer irritant than the fakery of summer camp. "They were all people you hardly knew and would probably never see again," she says of her fellow campers. "There was no reason to spend the whole summer hugging them...
...PELICAN, not surprisingly, is one of August Strindberg's less popular works. Written by a man preparing to die, the play is an expression of an over-powering scorn for the world and a sincere pity for humanity. In this, his last of four "chamber plays," so called for their resemblance to chamber music. Strindberg emphasizes theme and development rather-than plot and character. In what he called his "last sonata," Strindberg composed a relentlessly horrifying vision of life...