Word: scornful
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...Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...
...André has already acquired the occupational disease of Hollywood composers: a hurt attitude at the way other composers scorn them. Says he: "They don't realize what it is to compose 82 seconds of music for a guy falling downstairs&3151;when you have to have a drum when he hits the fourth step...
Schwartz's reputation, if last night's performance is an example, is well deserved. With a powerful voice, mature stage presence, and a masterful variety of interpretive effects, Schwartz dominated the stage as he went from pity to scorn, from anger to tragic resignation. Other parts were well-played...
...added ladle of soup, some poor souls became the valets of the Germans . . . swept out their mess halls, polished their boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...
...origin of the feud is obscure. Earnestly endeavoring to track it down, one editor found: "Back in the 80's, some indifferent Yardsters referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the Harvard Annex. That name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. In the intervening years, poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...