Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento last week, the California legislature struggled to assemble a final compromise on the 1972-73 state budget, 10.9% of which is devoted to higher education. Governor Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1967 making no secret of his scorn for the liberals of the educational establishment, has recommended that the state put up a total of $382 million, some $58 million short of U.C.'s request, while the legislature's senate and assembly put the figure at $390 million and $395 million respectively. For the first time in three years, Reagan's budget offered...
...through the use of dancing girls, the camera focuses on the dancers' insipid expressions and stylized foot motions while the sound track conveys their uninspired attempts at music-making. Then, there is a close-up of the samurai's face stamped with a look of such marvelous scorn that the dancers become a spectacle of banality...
...peace in order to retrieve territory he lost in the 1967 war. Hussein called another press conference to stress that the United Arab Kingdom would not be created until Israel returned to Jordan the West Bank and the Arab sector of Jerusalem. Meanwhile Israeli officials, after displaying initial public scorn for Hussein's plan, were beginning to admit that it was a basis for bargaining. At a lunch for foreign correspondents in Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir-who at week's end temporarily canceled all appointments on doctor's orders because she was suffering from fatigue-allowed indirectly...
...making no moves at all, and that is a strategy in itself. Kaufmann calls it drifting, and says it comes in two forms. One is the "status quoism" common to over-30 conservatives who cling to ancient decisions; the other is the "inauthenticity" of rebellious young people who scorn all traditions, have "no ties, no code, no major purpose," and rarely know in advance what they will do next...
Like the limerick, the pun may well be a folk-art form that defies condescension, scorn and contempt, and possess es the lust for survival of an amoeba. There will always be some, like that formidable adamant, Vladimir Nabokov, who believe that the pun is mightier than the word, that people who cannot play with words cannot properly work with them. "A man who could call a spade a spade," Oscar Wilde remarked, "should be compelled...