Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that student political groups are appreciated and that student service organizations are praised, whereas resentment still looms in some circles for athletic teams? Why is it that our talented classmates who are actors, singers, and artists are applauded, while some still scorn our basketball, hockey, and football players? Harvard College would not be the same without any of its unique members, athletes included...
...into the stereotype of the Ivies being elitist and exclusive, he opened the festival to all colleges nationwide, but kept the name as it was in order to maintain that the focus is still on the Ivies and in order to attract more press. In addition to avoiding the scorn of non-Ivy League schools, the quality of the festival as a whole increases by allowing students from non-Ivies to submit their work because it raises the level of competition and leads to the promotion and celebration of more qualified work...
...must be said that they were created with ambitious compassion. Canadian prime ministers have never intoned “Greed is good,” nor have they been so sanctimonious in their stewardship of national culture. Meanwhile the U.S. has bombed, sanctioned and bullied its way to worldwide scorn, and domestically has failed to attempt a social program of anywhere near the scope of Canada’s. When former President George Bush announced his goal of leading a “kinder, gentler nation,” his neighbors to the north wondered whether he was planning...
...fill water buckets from hand pumps?the city has no electricity or running water?and adults engage in the latest pastime: tracking high-flying jets through binoculars. Market prices are unchanged, largely because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke to claim there are thousands of Arabs in the country...
...misogynistic jokes told during a certain final club’s outing displayed “a disconcerting and ironic bifurcation, in which ‘pussy’ hegemonizes discourse as both an object of scorn and an object of lust,” according to Hist & Lit concentrator Joseph F. Brauntuch ‘04. Responded Fox punchmaster Brice I. Wideriver ‘02: “So I was like, ‘what’s that stank smell?’ and it was pussy! I love pussy...