Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrify him at first, until he saw that it might be used as a bargaining weapon against the West. The European Army repels him because it confines Germany to military forces inside an international body. Proved anti-Nazi though he is, he talks like any Nazi general in his scorn of the French and Italians as soldiers. "The concept of a European army," says Schumacher, "is a fallacy, because six invalids cannot combine to make one athlete...
Home for the Hopeless. In the Legion's headquarters at Algeria's Sidi-bel-Abbès, which looks like a set from Beau Geste, Legionnaires speak often with scorn and sometimes with hatred of the nation that hires them. Lili Marlene, sung in German, is heard on their lips more often than La Marseillaise. The 35,000 men of the Foreign Legion offer their lives to France and keep their loyalty for each other. Ask a soldier in Sidi-bel-Abbès his nationality and he will usually reply, "I am a Legionnaire...
Shakespeare's maturer comedies, boasting perhaps his most modern-style pair of lovers. Benedick'and Beatrice are no pastoral swain and sweetheart, no parties to Shakespeare's pet formula of Boy Turns Into Girl. Theirs is a lively sniping contest full of sophisticated scorn; they are as pert, as mocking, as hoity-toity-though by no means as hardhearted-as a Restoration gallant and belle. And the trick that is played on them-of causing each to overhear how the other adores him-still has laughter...
...congressional opponents of the deposed Prío regime, many of whom were cynically prepared to vote him all the constitutionality he might want, Batista had only scorn. "We haven't even considered their legalistic formulas," he said. "They don't fit in with the revolutionary realities of the situation." Batista would be President again-but he would name the time, and write the ticket...
...honor of a La Scala premiere is great, but the abuse is often greater. Verdi-happy Milan audiences, traditionally suspicious of new operas, have vented their scorn at scores of composers, including Puccini, whose Madame Butterfly took a fearful drubbing in 1904, and Menotti, whose Consul was hooted last year (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951). Last week a handsomely dressed full house in the 174-year-old Teatro alla Scala gave another honored visitor the works...