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...Brassy Words." In Denver, Eisenhower zeroed in on the New Frontiersmen with measured scorn. Said he: "For my part I am tired-terribly tired-of hearing America run down by them, of hearing their brassy and boastful words and watching their bumbling actions. The Washington record of these past 20 months presents a picture of political connivance instead of statesmanship, of selfish grabs for power instead of respect for our concepts of balance in government, of arrogant assertion of Washington infallibility instead of readiness to trust in the wisdom of the American people...
German nudists address each other as Lichtfreund (friend of light), scorn normal bathing areas where clothes are worn as "textile" beaches. Broad-beamed male and female nudists delight in taking group setting-up exercises, sail, water-ski and throw cocktail parties in the buff. The nudists' chief foe is the Roman Catholic Church, which says that nude bathing beaches "are places where immorality is furthered.'' Light friends vehemently deny this charge, say that the reason for the rise in nudism is that "we feel less observed when we're naked." Elsewhere in Europe this summer, Teutonic...
Though thousands of pieds-noirs are unemployed, most scorn available jobs as laborers or on the docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...
Parents who scorn the "See, See, See" tedium of "basal readers" have long cherished the story about the first-grade teacher who steps out of her wrecked car to cry, "Oh, Oh, Oh-Damn, Damn, Damn." Now the gag has grown to an entire parody of the best-known reader, Fun with Dick and Jane. At this month's convention of the National Education Association, delegates happily passed around the anonymous spoof, Fun with Hamlet and His Friends. Excerpts...
...years since his death, Pissarro has been given few good shows, and when Pissarro is not seen at his best he is best not seen at all. But the current show, put on by the same gallery that championed the impressionists during their years of public scorn, was chosen from private collections with both taste and sensitivity. Even so, it has not been much of a success; critical comment has been scanty, public attendance indifferent. As Cezanne once noted, Pissarro's was a humble art-and people tend to leave the verdict at that. They do not complete Cezanne...