Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nation, the New Republic saved a scorn it has never before used on its venerable competitor in a political campaign. A Nation editorial entitled "Should Liberals Climb Aboard?'', said the New Republic, "seems to say a Republican President, able to keep the more aggressive anti-Communists of his own party in line, can best move towards the peace abroad that is ours for the asking." Indeed the Nation said more: in an oblique flick at Stevenson, it warned that the problems of peace are now so touchy that the U.S. could not "tolerate much knight errantry." The Nation...
...found grounds for scorn in virtually everything that crossed his irritable eye. He advocated death by artillery fire for Negroes and poor whites. A vociferous agnostic, he roared against the "whooping soul-savers." (One of his favorite letter endings: "I pray for you incessantly.") Religion, he maintained, was simply a "conditioned reflex...
...Chambers, the Villain, he pours irresistible common sense on the woozled thinking of those who argue that Alger Hiss may have been guilty, but still scorn Whittaker Chambers as an "informer." Says Koestler: "To talk of betrayal [by Chambers of Hiss] where loyalty would mean persistence in crime [is] to defend the agents of an evil regime on the grounds that those who denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable...
...young American is searching for answers in an area that his prewar counterpart was all too ready to scorn...
...these questions up the fashionable modern Parnassus-inhabited by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gide, and all manner of existentialists. In the end, a little existentialist moss clings to his rolling stone, and Camus achieves his answer: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged . . . There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Sisyphus has achieved "a total absence of hope (which has nothing to do with despair)." Rope or Cravat? While it is no news, of course, that French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily...