Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike numerous cardiologists who scorn surgery, Russek acknowledges the value of the coronary bypass in some cases. But he questions whether the operation is as safe as its advocates claim...
...major reason for the S.L.A.'s backdown on the food issue, however tentative, may well have been the scorn heaped on the original demand by a vast majority of those designated as beneficiaries. Many welfare recipients said that they would refuse to take any food paid for with "blood money." Chavez sent a message to the Hearsts that "my prayers are with you." Leftists from Black Panther Leader Huey Newton to Actress Jane Fonda condemned the S.L.A.'s use of violence as damaging to the radical cause. Some too conveniently forgot the New Left's more-than-occasional condoning...
There are, of course, positive sides to Rocky's record. He refused to endorse Goldwater in 1964 even though he suffered intense scorn from party regulars. He signed New York's liberated abortion law, one of the nation's first, and fought attempts to repeal it. He has never been accused of corruption (although that reflects more credit on his family fortune than his scruples...
...somewhat reminiscent of the mental asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The men do the simplest kind of make-work. While their presence is voluntary, they are psychically crippled by a desperate need for safety and a deep fear of being objects of ridicule, scorn or pity in the outside world...
Opening today his show at Hilles will also feature a previously recorded guided tour. Supposedly based on the collected writings of Jeremiah Rippe, a 19th-century craftsman, these structures baffle and boggle the contemporary psyche. Part Peter Max and part Michael Valentine, they scorn traditional interpretation. They also seem crazy...