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Regarded with scorn and trepidation, the capital city remains uncomfortable but composed. By now, after all, it is used to being attacked, having in a sense been baptized in the War of 1812, when Rear Admiral Cockburn and his redcoats practically cooked the city alive. A violent storm followed the British, whipping roofs and chimneys off houses. Things looked up after that. The charred walls of the President's house were painted white, thus suggesting a new name. Eventually the mud streets were paved. A social life came waltzing in, followed briskly by a professional life and a business...
Obviously, some of these grievances are more urgent than others. But in a strange way they have all been blended into one shrill complaint. There is something quite special going on here. The city is not solely an object of scorn for being clumsy and cold. The very idea of Washington is hated too. And both the idea and the fact of the city have now become so confused in the public mind that expressions of contempt for the place sound as if the city had done the complainer some personal injury: "It is impossible for me to express...
Restic says the Big Red's number one signal-caller, Mike Ryan, probably only suffered a bruise last week, and he figures Cornell coach Bob Blackman wants the emotional lift of bringing in a supposedly injured star at the last minute. Restic adds, with a little scorn for this pre-game bluster: "I would be very surprised if Ryan doesn't start...
...more important--the Klan member wants for himself; the revolutionary communist, however screwed up, wants for others. The Klan has a vision of the past, the RCP of the future. People can be excused for their fantasies about the future, for no proof exists that they are wrong. So scorn the Klan, hate the Klan, pray that they go away. But when you pass the RCP people in the Square, understand them, tell whoever you're with that their hearts are in the right place, give them a quarter for the goddamn newspaper...
...those gringo feminists, are you?" the woman sitting at the AMNLAE office's reception desk asked suspiciously. Reyes hurried to explain her comrade's scorn. "Although we feel solidarity with European and North American feminists because machismo is a universal problem, we do not agree with their individualistic, capitalistic methods. They are separatists who do not work cooperatively with men as we do. I also question their sincerity-- we appreciate the telegrams of support sent to us after the revolution. But why didn't they send us money and typewriters? You can't build a movement on telexes...