Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of scorn, the narrator has a sort of amused sympathetic view of people who don't understand him: "Well, they never seen the Northern Lights/They never seen the hawk on the wing...
...THERE IS anything different about Ridin' High from his previous efforts, it is that the hard edge of bitterness and scorn that sometimes sliced through the genial flamboyance is gone. Success has made Walker a little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids...
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago must be doing something right [March 29] if he continues to receive the support of the voters and the scorn of the liberal media...
...Joan Baez, and others, placed Ochs squarely in the tradition of Pete Seeger, of Woody Guthrie before Seeger, and of Joe Hill before Woody. For Ochs, the struggle against oppression was everything, and he mocked those unwilling to carry out all the implications of that struggle. He reserved particular scorn for the liberals...
...first, the humor of Native Intelligence is a sharp and satirical joy. Sokolov, like his hero Harvard '63, summa cum laude, understands exactly the kind of mind he is writing about, and he portrays intelligence intelligently and with unerring accuracy. All of Alan's foibles--his detachment, his slight scorn for everyone else, his obsessive discovery of sex, in the way he dresses--ring absolutely true. His, and Sokolov's, mind is at bottom unceasingly observant and perceptive, interested in and a little bored by everything, endlessly analytical of self and surroundings. Because of this, the way the novel...