Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headstrong rule of his own roost, Gleason had a mixed reputation around CBS: "There is only one way to do things." said the voices in the washroom, "the Gleason way." He refused to rehearse, treated scriptwriters with such scorn that one producer claims "we had to hire a liaison man between Gleason and his scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working...
...scorn heaped on India's Prime Minister Nehru for his invasion of Goa was almost unanimous in the world's press. Samples...
Violently anti-U.N., the Belgian mercenaries scorn the caliber of U.N. troops. "The Irish and the Swedes make a lot of noise about being wonderful soldiers." says one Belgian with characteristicbitterness." But they're not worth a damn. All the Ethiopians are former criminals. The Gurkhas aren't human. They're not black and they're not white. They're macaques [apes]." The U.S. support of the U.N. causes rage: "Kennedy is a doubly filthy macaque. He's not only American; he's Irish...
...scholarship of the writers is much less arresting than their scorn, their scolding, their sense of civic virtue. Their language is filled with the old words of Christian righteousness ("spoliations," "disorderly house," "men of evil"), but in every case their targets were more formidable than their words. Ida Tarbell made Standard Oil "her province, referring to it here and there as "the Monster." Phillips, the wildest of them all, took out after the Senate, calling its leaders that "group of traitors in the service of the thieves...
...infiltrates it. Is the obscenity just a quirk that must be overlooked if one does not like it? Miller projects it with considerable vigor, and it seems rooted deeply in his personality. But again, it is not a debauched degeneracy; nor does he use it in a spirit of scorn and repudiation. It is of life generally, a matter of humor, neither malicious nor perverted. It is included because this too is a part of life that he would redeem. Miller has a great and wonderfully positive enjoyment of the senses, but he is unlike his characters...