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...target for those gigabytes of scorn is the last hurrah of Republican Senator Alan Simpson, 64, the deacon of U.S. immigration law, who is retiring this December after 18 years in Congress. Simpson, who sponsored a major reform of U.S. immigration rules in 1986, has some further fine-tuning in mind. What has businessmen so riled up is provisions in Simpson's 200 plus-page immigration package that would sharply curtail the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. on employment visas each year. Those in the technology business charge that at best the cutback...
...scorn for elitism also informed Smith's ambivalent response to the praise he ultimately garnered from the artistic community. Some critics have argued that Smith's stormy relations with contemporary artistic "authorities" represented a refusal to fit his work within the contemporary parameters of art discourse. But after viewing this exhibit, it becomes clearer that Smith's concerns were more specific than simply a complete rejection of artistic aspirations...
...star concert: "This is what sickened me. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, those people have earned their place in rock history, and I want to hear them anytime. But where was the representation of rock right now? Bon Jovi does not represent rock right now, O.K.?" And he expresses scorn for rockers he sees as imitations: "Let's face it, Alanis Morissette is like a tame Courtney Love [a former girlfriend of Corgan's who now heads the punk band Hole]. What is Alanis Morissette being held up as? This feministic step forward. The fact is, it's people like Courtney...
...city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah, but to my knowledge he has never been back," says Marshall. "Why doesn't he come back and help make things better...
...distinguished St. Petersburg family with medieval roots and country estates, Nabokov never sentimentalized the old regime. Not for him the romance of serf and turf. He was above all a cultural and intellectual aristocrat, part of the Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were crushed by triumphant Bolshevism. Scorn for tyrants is etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with...