Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows have aroused neither scorn nor outraged contempt, and they have had serious attention from critics. But the general reaction of both press and public has been rather tepid and indifferent. Nevertheless, the shows' sponsors feel a sense of accomplishment. Said Collector Lawrence Fleischman, whose fine collection of American paintings (TIME, Sept. 10) was sent abroad by USIA last year: "In this propaganda battle today, Russia's weakest point is that its artists have to create according to the way the government tells them. Nobody who sees these shows can fail to understand that our artists paint...
...Stigma & Scorn. The Watkins case, wrote Warren, "rests upon fundamental principles of the power of the Congress and the limitations upon that power." The Chief Justice therefore delivered a professorial lecture on parliamentary history, ranging from the 17th century British inquiry involving Popish Plotmonger Titus Oates* ("the infamous rogue") through the historic lawgiving of Sir Edward Coke, James I's Lord Chief Justice, to the U.S. Senate investigation in 1859 of John Brown's seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal...
...when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...
Pusey said that the reticence to which he referred was caused by "increased insight" and a "healthy scorn of cant." But he warned that although "it is easy to achieve emancipation from false and little faiths," it "is quite another thing." to come to a large and life-giving faith...
...Russian tension. He jabbed his finger didactically as he prophesied that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism." A metal tooth often glinted at the corner of a cunning smile, and his quick but heavy wit, like a fat lady with a flair for dancing, lunged repeatedly in scorn; e.g., "You must do away with your Iron Curtain and not be afraid of Soviet cooks arriving in the U.S. -I don't think they will make any revolution in your country...