Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are particular people who should be very much on our minds and consciences. We owe special honor and comfort to the families of the Americans who gave their lives in Viet Nam, and we owe a special scorn to any politicians who might seek to exploit their sorrow. We owe far better medical care to the Viet Nam wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace...
...Herman Kahin is lying. I heard that speech, and the CRIMSON's version was accurate, if brief. There wasn't the faintest suggestion in Kahn's statements that he considered morality too complex an issue. Indeed, his attitude was one of simple scorn. Kahn very cavalierly dimissed moral factors as irrelevant and, despite his claims to the contrary, made no distinctions between kinds of moral arguments. His view was that if you use moral arguments, "it implies that you're better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along...
...kits and books arouse the scorn of some longtime enthusiasts. "macramé is a beautiful and old art form," says Mrs. Christa Mayer, curator of textiles at the Chicago Art Institute, "but it is being sadly cheapened by the how-to books." Although macramé's pragmatic virtues are stressed in its latest incarnation, it retains its artistic values. New York's Museum of American Folk Art has just opened an exhibition of the more splendid examples. Among the items on display: an Inca hat, delicate macramé lace from 17th century Genoa, and fur rugs macram...
...idealistic radicals whose militance had not crushed every bit of love they had out of them. Friends gathered, hugged, and began to care about each other. Perhaps it was the rock concert Saturday night and the people who came to hear it. Everyone on The Land had nothing but scorn for the "weekend hippies" across the road who, it was felt, would leave before the action started Monday. The radicals with their commitment had no use for the freaks with their acid and bummers. It was the first time the people at The Land could unite about anything; after days...
...with the possible exception of Harvard, which regards almost anyone with unaffected scorn anyway, and Cornell, who few really know much about, each Ivy brother holds another in undiluted contempt for one obscure reason or another...