Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture that it would sometimes seem that the intellectual is America's hopeless Displaced Person. He is not only supposed to be the man that Senator McCarthy is after; he is also supposed to be the man that the rest of the nation persistently chooses to ignore or scorn. Diplomat George Kennan has said: "I can think of few countries in the world where the artist, the writer, the composer or the thinker is held in such general low esteem as he is here in our country...
...have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They do not exist, or they have been unwilling to face the scorn and abuse of those on the extreme fringes . . . Editorials that do not speak sedition, bigotry, white supremacy and incitation to legislative folly and physical violence are not accepted as 'honest' or 'courageous...
...busies himself with the "Free Officers" Club of dissident Arab Legion officers in Cairo. Abd el Krim, the old Berber warrior who once kept 20,000 French troops on the run, is maintained as a decorative figurehead, was trotted out last week to urge all North African rebels to scorn France's "honeyed promises...
...platform he mocks politicians with a peasant's shrewdness, mocks Paris with a provincial's scorn, mocks himself with rough humor. "We have been too long on all fours." he shouts. "That way we were perfectly placed to get kicked." He brags. Puffing up a paper bag, he bursts it with a bang, and explains: "If I did that in the Assembly, six or seven Deputies would be trampled to death in the stampede for safety." Once, returning from Paris lugging two huge suitcases, he quipped: "It's nothing much-just a couple of Cabinet ministers...
...army, to a soldier serving unwillingly, is apt to seem a carefully designed tyranny. Writers, especially, see military life as a kind of conspiracy to fracture their sensibilities. A lot of German soldierwriters seem no different from novelistsin-uniform anywhere when it comes to heaping scorn on barracks life. What is surprising in this book is not that the Wehrmacht produced a novelist who protests against the army, but that he makes his protest with a sardonic sense of humor...