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...years, Robinson Jeffers lived in isolation on the coast of California, preferring the company of hawks and vultures to that of people. His poems are filled with a scorn of mankind and a love of nature-not just of its beauty but of its violence, its merciless indifference. Jeffers' notion of Utopia was like no other: "The cities gone down, the people fewer and the hawks more numerous...
Once known as "the old lady of Washington" for its thorough but stodgy local coverage, the Star's title now reflects more scorn than affection. For years it was the biggest and richest paper in the capital, but it began slipping soon after the Post merged with the Times-Herald in 1954, now is a poor second, with 258,167 circulation to the Post's 408,701. A decade ago, the afternoon Star was sixth among U.S. dailies in advertising linage; at last count it had slipped to 12th...
...Negro "status seeker," as Mr. Frederick H. Gardner justly observed in last Friday's CRIMSON, is not an effective "equalitarian." He does not win our admiration as do the courageous freedom fighters. But it is presumption to scorn the Negro who seeks personal betterment. Few persons are cut out to be crusaders, and to insist that every Negro is under moral compulsion to make himself an unwilling sacrifice is cruel and destructive...
...purpose to express scorn for anyone, but to show that within a southern Negro community--Atlanta in the case at hand--there exists a variety of social attitudes, few of which approximate the radicalism which Northerners read into the civil rights movement...
Vain Apologies. During a swing through France and West Germany early this year, the dashing young poet was lionized at parties (including a masquerade ball during Munich's annual Carnival) by pleasure-loving bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence...