Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy only in the ironic sense. Years after, Hanshawe and Cassy visit the old man, who is holed up in a rackety studio like a frowsty old terrier. After a few obscene remarks to his ex-mistress, the irrepressible Gorer turns on the millionaire with defiant, mocking scorn: "You make your pile, and with it on your backs you know you'll never again get airborne. But old Gorer, he's got rid of all that ballast. At least you can come and watch him fly-wheee! thar he goes-! Ah! How you love me, how you envy...
Main target of Sholokhov's scorn was plainly Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, the current idol of serious poetry lovers and the young intelligentiki. A shaggy, twice-married Angry Young Muscovite who sports jazzy French suits and boasts a modern, two-room apartment, Evtushenko looks, and at times sounds, rather like a beat Keats. Though he produces periodic Party paeans on such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that...
...hard-sell techniques can be used in a land where the cartel philosophy lingers on, and where many people tend to scorn price discounting as a plot to put the little man out of business. German law forbids any claims that one product is better than a competing one; also banned are "Brand X" comparisons, bonus coupons, boxtop gimmicks, free tie-in offers and two for the price of one. An adman in Germany may boast that his client's soap washes white-but not whiter or whitest. Thus Y. & R. could not advertise that Remington shavers "have...
...with just a trace of scorn in his voice, he suggested that if the big powers could not really get together on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold, the problem might be turned over to someone else-the Africans themselves. "We, the smaller states, will produce one," declared Wachuku, "and will give him our fullest support. That is how we do things in Africa...
...Trace of Scorn. Like most other African delegates, he sees self-determination as an issue only among colonial people, not in such a place as Berlin, which he airily dismisses as a matter of power politics. But while most Africans carefully concealed their opposition to the Red proposal to run the U.N. by troika-so as not to anger Moscow-Wachuku spoke out bluntly against it: "We do not agree with the Soviet Union about the troika proposal. That would not work...