Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vain Apologies. During a swing through France and West Germany early this year, the dashing young poet was lionized at parties (including a masquerade ball during Munich's annual Carnival) by pleasure-loving bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence...
Nikita spared no group in the restless audience. Writer Ilya Ehrenburg, 72, drew scorn for the title of his 1954 novel, The Thaw, which, said Nikita, suggests political "impermanence and instability." As for Ehrenburg's memoirs, which have been running in the literary journal Novy Mir, Khrushchev remarked caustically, "one notices that he depicts everything in grim tones." Khrushchev warned the veteran Ehrenburg against "slipping into an anti-Communist position...
...first criticism of this stance is that it fails to assess the possibilities of human understanding. In a kind of soul-to-soul communication among men possible? Their scorn is directed at a group-white liberals-while the understanding they feel is their right is a quality of the most delicate relationships between individuals...
college scene and the U.S. scenario for the cold war are peppered with scorn and assaulted with wit by an uneven and provocative critic...
...injured Packers to run in practice ("You're preparing yourselves mentally"), and slackers found themselves heading out of town on the evening train. "Don't cross me," Lombardi warned Quarterback Bart Starr. "If you cross me a second time, you're gone." Self-pity provoked only scorn. "When Lombardi came," recalls Center Jim Ringo, "I told him I wanted out. I said I wanted to play on a winning team. He looked at me and said, 'This is going to be a winning team.' You know his voice. You know his eyes. If he said...