Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...derision Wolfe heaps on Felicia Bernstein's Mary Astor accent towers over the loving paean he delivers to Carol Doda's plasticene breasts. But then Felicia is in, really in, and Carol, however notoriously, was always out. Felicia is the obvious target for the satirist's scorn. Wolfe could laugh with poor Carol, at her audience and at herself, but he can only laugh at dear Felicia. And so a sharpness enters his voice where it did not previously exist...
...recent history of Harvard has been notable for the progress made toward an appreciative understanding of the various communities of belief represented here. People have come to see more clearly the values contained in the traditions not their own. It is arrogance to scorn what others hold sacred...
...apologies to any members of the community who felt their values scorned or ridiculed by my review. However, I had hoped that people would understand the distinction between an assault on personal religious belief-which my review was not-and an appreciation of a play which I (and apparently 1200 others) found to be very funny. The spirit of my review was satire and not scorn; humor, and the binding warmth of group amusement, was what I took to be the spirit of the play...
...John Cale left the Velvet Underground. His solo album, appropriately Vintage Violence, rejects further exploration in the maniacal realms for a complex, coherent eclecticism. The sensibility of Vintage Violence is nothing so much as non-violent. A sense of tranquility rather than jagged scorn runs through all of Cale's imagery...
Some of those who made the list spoke indignantly, in the words of Nat Hentoff, of "selective repression." Most met inclusion with scorn. Jessica Mitford vowed to "add it to my list of awards and honors in Who's Who." One of the more intriguing facts in the report was that the speakers had earned a total of $108,000 so far in campus lecture fees, showing that radicalism can be profitable. In fact, the blacklisting probably made them still more desirable as campus speakers...