Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also gives him a chance to write a slanted version of German history from 1918 to 1946, and to heap scorn on the Americans who imprisoned him for some months...
...making, as partisans claim, it grows in an artistic climate similar to that of Paris in the 1900s. As Paris was then, Manhattan is host to thousands upon thousands of young artists from near and far, fired with enthusiasm for themselves and for each other. Many scorn the art schools, and find their instruction and inspiration in a vast weekly banquet of important and exciting art shows. Their feverish eclecticism, their penchant for picking at random among the established schools and philosophies, lends the whole a chaotic effect. But the fact remains that good art seen in such quantity...
...Laura it is a developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...
...likable persons indeed. And by far the great majority of Americans are friendly and generous to a degree that you do not always find in these islands. Going around disapproving of Americans is very tiring work indeed. Their many and obvious virtues make it very uphill work." Cassandra now scorns Bevan's and Nehru's "neutralism" with the same scorn he once heaped on the U.S. He also advocates the same strong anti-Communist foreign policy that the U.S. has been advancing. Why did Cassandra change? Explains he: "When you lose your distrust and dislikes of a person...
...belligerently so. While they may feel the need to cultivate an indifference to certain things (most freshmen apparently never put their "dinks" on, once freshman camp is over), they are less likely to make the art of indifference a study in itself. And while they may vent their scorn verbally on hapless little Ithaca College in the town below them, they will probably not vent it on the world in general or on that portion of it unfortunate enough not to be attending Cornell...