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...fact is that the scientists in our civilization constitute a new sort of religious order [that] sets itself apart from the world by a discipline, a language and an attitude. The attitude is that of contemptus mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership...
After reading your article, millions of Americans will laugh those three Dickensian characters (Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Thigpen and Member Crum) to scorn, and that sweet little old lady in your portrait will be Baskin in the warm sunshine of public sympathy and approval...
...nation accustomed to decorous politics, Diefenbaker is staging a dramatically different campaign. A onetime top criminal lawyer with a flair for courtroom oratory, he is barnstorming the country, pulling in big demonstrative audiences. Standing before giant-sized portraits of himself, blue eyes blazing, he heaps scorn on his political opponents ("they talked; we acted"), blames Liberal policies for Canada's recession, promises a huge public-works program. With occasional overtones of Yankee-baiting, he sweepingly blames the farm recession on the dumping of U.S. surpluses, calls for the creation of new industries to process Canadian raw materials instead...
...Jazzmen scorn most classically trained sax players, but frequently dig Mule. Says the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Paul Desmond, a brilliant alto-sax artist: ''He has the quality of purity. He's made the sax sound good, which no other legit sax player has done." In the 19203, onetime Schoolteacher Mule served in the Garde Républicaine. which has France's finest military band. He studied the few orchestral works for saxophone then at hand, including Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony, Bizet's L'Arlésienne. After a brief flirtation...
...large extent the Monitor's excellence derives from Editor Erwin Dain Canham, 53, veteran newspaperman who has little but scorn for the artificial "objectivity" that cloaks the superficiality of much news writing. Says "Spike" Canham: "We believe that the balancing fact should be attached directly to the misleading assertion. News interpretation, with all its hazards, is often safer and wiser than printing the bare news alone. Nothing can be more misleading than the unrelated fact, just because it is a fact and hence impressive." Example: during the rise of the late Joe McCarthy, the Monitor...