Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parents who scorn the "See, See, See" tedium of "basal readers" have long cherished the story about the first-grade teacher who steps out of her wrecked car to cry, "Oh, Oh, Oh-Damn, Damn, Damn." Now the gag has grown to an entire parody of the best-known reader, Fun with Dick and Jane. At this month's convention of the National Education Association, delegates happily passed around the anonymous spoof, Fun with Hamlet and His Friends. Excerpts...
...Founding Fathers, of whatever religious hue, adhered to that proposition and expressed it both in word and writing. But, perhaps out of fear and scorn for the established and official state churches of Europe, they never sought to codify the proposition as law. Rather, they tried to protect it by strictly limiting the participation of government in official religious activity...
...further, the Harvard man has an immense scorn for the desires and pursuits for others. He laughs at grinds, jocks, music wonks, and professors. He thinks business is boring and a waste of time, and he feels that all politicians are crooked and misled. There is an iconoclasm that slashes through pretension and everything that looks to the undergraduate like pretension, which means practically all organized activity...
Enough already have to make them a fixture of current U.S. college life-like the "A" student and the Goldwater button. What most of the singers have in common is their age (early 20s) and their scorn of the "commercial." What separates them is the quality of their talent...
...painters of the figure talk of their work and its relation to abstraction with emotions that go from gratitude to scorn. Sidney Goodman, 26, the teacher...