Word: scornful
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Once inside, John Lewis put on his best virtuoso performance. His meaty frame shook with laughter, trembled with scorn, vibrated with anger, froze in righteous dignity. And all the while his deft fingers tugged at the strings, rigging the conference into a one-man show...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...
Wolfe's crowded and tumultuous sen tences shape themselves naturally into rhapsodic verses. Most ambitious poem in the collection is the eleven-page This Is Man, a portrait of the human creature whom "it is impossible to scorn." More winning are the lyrics about the seasons and the weather and their way with man on the earth he loves...
...ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind to her." Queenly Danilova, who has some of the manners of a grande dame, has only scorn for the get-to-the-top-quick ambitions of U.S. girls. Danilova would like...
...necessary for salvation that the neurotic sinner be subjected to total immersion (perhaps 200 or more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that...