Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Activities like these sometimes draw the scorn of those who dwell on the flaws of American society. But these civic efforts are the grace notes of any community...
...privately of his dismay at the New Englanders' "overruling influence in council ?their low cunning, and those levelling principles winch men without character and without fortune in general possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least...
...scorn heaped on the second office in the republic, the modern-day fact is that vice-presidential virus is only slightly less contagious than presidential fever. One reason is that four of our last eight Vice Presidents have become President. Nelson Rockefeller used to be openly contemptuous of the post, noting that he did not consider himself to be stand-by equipment; when the job was offered he quickly accepted it. Robert Kennedy in 1964 convinced his friends how really awful he thought it would be to serve as Lyndon Johnson's running mate. Not long afterward he tried...
...summon the powerful, and the assurance not to be overawed by them; such a role would suit her better than merely reading the news. Moreover, on all three networks, news is viewed with real responsibility. The big three among network anchor men-Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Harry Reasoner -scorn show-biz gimmickry. At most, these personally cheerful fellows can be accused of cultivating those reassuring mannerisms of gravity and neutrality that make them trusted. The news snippets they read are as soberly chosen as they would be on the New York Times...
...motivation behind this romantic obsession, Mack argues, was Lawrence's need for redemption--a need spurred not only by his shame about being a bastard, but also by the secret life his unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with a people under the yoke of imperialist domination than his own haunting memories of his mother's rigid morality? (An illegitimate child herself, she pleaded with each of her three sons to redeem her by becoming missionaries...