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...remain unsatisfied by denying. Isabella died in labor as the other Glorious Ones made reluctant half-hearted efforts to aid her. She explains that most of them wanted her to die because they envied her fertility. They themselves could only feel a love that was laden with hate and scorn; thus they were impotent or sterile. Her second pronouncement is harsher, but contained in an incongruously mild aside. Speaking of her husband Francesco, who by the end of the book had wrested command of the troupe from Flaminio Scala, she commented...
...season was most notably redeemed by the Harvard Student Union Drama Committee's production of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, a serious play about the horror and waste of war. The Crimson reviewer, subdued and genuinely impressed, notes the topical subject of the play without scorn, and speaks of the "spirit of honest reality" which pervaded the production. That night The Adventures of Robin Hood was playing at the University Theatre...
Once again, music was the focus of ideological attack in China last week. This time, however, the object of scorn was not such decadent bourgeois composers as Beethoven and Schubert, but a Chinese opera with the ponderous title Three Ascents Up Peach Mountain. Performed in Peking in January, the new opera initially provoked nobody's wrath. But now People's Daily has castigated it as an "outrageous attack" on Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary philosophy. The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist...
Unlike numerous cardiologists who scorn surgery, Russek acknowledges the value of the coronary bypass in some cases. But he questions whether the operation is as safe as its advocates claim...
...major reason for the S.L.A.'s backdown on the food issue, however tentative, may well have been the scorn heaped on the original demand by a vast majority of those designated as beneficiaries. Many welfare recipients said that they would refuse to take any food paid for with "blood money." Chavez sent a message to the Hearsts that "my prayers are with you." Leftists from Black Panther Leader Huey Newton to Actress Jane Fonda condemned the S.L.A.'s use of violence as damaging to the radical cause. Some too conveniently forgot the New Left's more-than-occasional condoning...