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Pennsylvania's "Granddaddy" Turnpike affords a turnoff at U.S. 23 to Valley Forge and on through rambling fields and decent towns with indecent names like Bareville and Intercourse in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, whose Amish farmers scorn electricity, never cut their beards, and travel when they must by horse and buggy. For them, perhaps, the beaten path holds adventure. Even the turnpikes might prove a treat...
Justice Harlan, in this instance, was addressing himself to the court's redistricting ruling (TIME, June 26), but his scarcely concealed scorn could apply to much of the Court's recent activity...
...Lincoln," the new candidate cried, "would cry out in pain if we sold out on our principles, but he would laugh out with scorn if we threw away an election...
Where directors David Mills and Edward Leavitt have taken liberties with the text, their additions are striking. As the watchman finishes his opening soliloquy and leaves the stage, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus burst through the curtain and look with surprise, with fear, finally with scorn on the beacon that tells them Agamemnon will be returning from Troy. While the king is being welcomed home by his queen, the herald who had earlier trumpeted his own joy at returning to Argos watches his wife turn away from him, a symbol of what will happen to Agamemnon...
...Crimson sophomore, meanwhile, took it easy, going over 6'6 1/4" on his first try against Holy Cross, and then quiting. He explained apologetically that he felt stiff. Pardee speaks of 6'6 1/4" with a tinge of scorn, as if it were something most high jumpers could do with their feet tied together...