Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S trenchant elucidation of patriotism pay tribute to our fighting and dying men in Southeast Asia; may it thunder bolts of ridicule and scorn on the ever-increasing numbers of extreme dissenters who question America's so-called entanglement there...
...overrun. When the Greek government requisitioned a piece of land he owned for use as a military cemetery, Seferis said: "Alas, even if they gave it back I fear it would be hard to raise the rent." To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion. His austere prescription for self-knowledge is, therefore, almost predictable...
Kavanaugh poured out his scorn for canon law ("Dump it into the Tiber"), the Mass in English (which he called meaningless), and clerical celibacy. He admitted that he not only dates occasionally but also hopes eventually to marry. "I don't know how I, as a man, can find God and meaning without a close personal relationship with a woman," he said. Accused of being a trifle obsessed with sexual problems, Kavanaugh answered: "Everyone is hung...
...Your scorn again above all at this word...
...summer of race riots, Negro students are returning to college campuses with a new and aggressive pride in being black. It shows up in a revival of all-Negro fraternities, surging membership in "Afro-American" student-action groups, demands for more "black culture" in the curriculum, and a growing scorn for the white, middle-class world that lies within reach of the college-trained Negro. The new mood ranges from angry militancy to a brotherly desire for mutual improvement-and it does not reject violence as one way to make the black presence felt...