Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work compounded of his life-long scorn of the bourgeoisie, their morals, their intellectual giddiness, their thoughtless generalizations...
...Delineating the mind-heavy brow of G. B. Shaw (opposite), John's brush is icicle-sharp. Gliding across the bosom of the Marchesa Casati (overleaf), it turns feather-soft. He naturally places his technique at the service of his subject matter, and this instinct, which most modern painters scorn, is the first essential of portraiture...
Just as we can beat the field, our pals the British are almost as unbeatable, regularly whipping the French. It is only against the stalwart American (known with withering scorn as "Colonist") that a hero of Duquesne or the Peninsula loses his sense of strategy and decency...
...British Scorn. Meanwhile, Spain sent its ambassador to call on Anthony Eden to protest Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit on May 10 to Britain's fortress on Gibraltar, "Spanish territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
...their wives for snubbing the pretty young actress-bride of Yugoslavia's chief of staff just because she had not fought in World War II. Snorted Djilas: the girl was only 13 years old when the war ended. Besides, who were these wives to point a finger of scorn? asked Djilas-and proceeded to describe in unmistakable detail and almost unprintable terms the premarital practices of some of these lady war veterans. (Tito himself married a 28-year-old army major and partisan fighter...