Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depressed southern Mezzogiorno and worker housing in its home city of Turin. Umberto Agnelli criticizes the unions for not taking these expenditures into account when pressing for wage increases to catch up with the cost of living, spiraling at the rate of 15.6% annually; but his greatest scorn is reserved for the government. "There is no economic plan," he says acidly, "no consistent framework within which to operate. It would be possible to run the company like a civil servant, but that certainly is not what I want." Unless the government can find some way to alleviate the effects...
Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn, Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns, And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin 'popcorn And the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born...
...remain unsatisfied by denying. Isabella died in labor as the other Glorious Ones made reluctant half-hearted efforts to aid her. She explains that most of them wanted her to die because they envied her fertility. They themselves could only feel a love that was laden with hate and scorn; thus they were impotent or sterile. Her second pronouncement is harsher, but contained in an incongruously mild aside. Speaking of her husband Francesco, who by the end of the book had wrested command of the troupe from Flaminio Scala, she commented...
...season was most notably redeemed by the Harvard Student Union Drama Committee's production of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, a serious play about the horror and waste of war. The Crimson reviewer, subdued and genuinely impressed, notes the topical subject of the play without scorn, and speaks of the "spirit of honest reality" which pervaded the production. That night The Adventures of Robin Hood was playing at the University Theatre...
Once again, music was the focus of ideological attack in China last week. This time, however, the object of scorn was not such decadent bourgeois composers as Beethoven and Schubert, but a Chinese opera with the ponderous title Three Ascents Up Peach Mountain. Performed in Peking in January, the new opera initially provoked nobody's wrath. But now People's Daily has castigated it as an "outrageous attack" on Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary philosophy. The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist...