Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terrible equivocation . . . pious religious jargon . . . long-winded double-talk . . ." With these epithets an Episcopal minister defied the rules of his church and sprayed scorn upon his bishops' attempt to guide their faithful...
...critics, who once scorned Dubuffet, now, according to TIME, call him "the most important painter to come out of postwar France." But the public continues to scorn him, because he is ahead of his times and the public, as usual, is behind the times...
...characters in the movie are about as typical as the events, except for the husband. He is, I believe, the first he-man ever to be cast as a dentist. Fairly obviously his profession considerably alienates bride Brigitte's socially minded father, but such scorn is obviously unmerited because the hero dresses Ivy-Leaguishly and drives around in a brand-new white sports car--a fine vehicle indeed except when it serves as a background for the equally white subtitles...
...Gaulle has not suffered these slings of scorn with patience. The chansonniers were disciplined last month by being barred from the state-owned radio and TV unless they first submitted tape recordings of their songs. The regime has seized editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands...
...wrote The Black Book. This first novel is a glittering, exultant, outrageous act of self-indulgence, and the reader needs no dust-jacket exegesis to tell him that this is the work of a brilliant boy. Durrell raises up laments to the bleakness of life, bathes in scorn and sorrow the wretched creatures who must live it, sets down prose odes to the godawfulness of England. The outlook is determinedly fungoid, yet the tone is perversely gleeful. The author is gloriously drunk with sex, sin, scorn, youth and his own deflowering genius...