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...overrun. When the Greek government requisitioned a piece of land he owned for use as a military cemetery, Seferis said: "Alas, even if they gave it back I fear it would be hard to raise the rent." To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion. His austere prescription for self-knowledge is, therefore, almost predictable...
Kavanaugh poured out his scorn for canon law ("Dump it into the Tiber"), the Mass in English (which he called meaningless), and clerical celibacy. He admitted that he not only dates occasionally but also hopes eventually to marry. "I don't know how I, as a man, can find God and meaning without a close personal relationship with a woman," he said. Accused of being a trifle obsessed with sexual problems, Kavanaugh answered: "Everyone is hung...
...Your scorn again above all at this word...
...summer of race riots, Negro students are returning to college campuses with a new and aggressive pride in being black. It shows up in a revival of all-Negro fraternities, surging membership in "Afro-American" student-action groups, demands for more "black culture" in the curriculum, and a growing scorn for the white, middle-class world that lies within reach of the college-trained Negro. The new mood ranges from angry militancy to a brotherly desire for mutual improvement-and it does not reject violence as one way to make the black presence felt...
Given the average Harvard student's apparently natural disdain for business, and the predilection of HSA types for the style and affectations of businessmen, the scorn HSA receives is understandable. A look at the HSA offices or a few minutes' chat with some of its officers is enough to indicate that mnay HSA executives do emulate and cultivate the style of their Madison Avenue or Congress Street big brothers...