Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During the 1952 campaign, the attempts of Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson...
...spokesman for the Holt International Children's Services, an organization helping these children, points out, strong nationalistic feeling in the Asian countries has helped cause the ostracism of Amerasians from societies, which will not often accept anything less than total racial homogeneity. Consequently, many Amerasians are subject to intense scorn, ridicule, and harrassment and condemned to lives of poverty...
...high interest rates, students are stepping cautiously, weighing the advantages of expensive graduate schools against those of immediate employment and balancing all of that against less-selfish concerns about political issues. Being matter-of-fact about choosing a path beyond the gates of the Yard should not prompt scorn or surprise. "You can't blame someone for wanting to get into a good professional school, to get into a good firm," says Michael T. Anderson '83, a prominent leftist campus organizer. (Please see adjacent interview.) On the other hand, people here have not spent all of their time...
...extended break pushes the final curtain past 11:30) the twin productions maintain a sharp direction and pace that keeps them from flagging. Time speeds up and slows down often in the space between 8 p.m. and midnight; cynicism becomes hope and then a starry-eyed idealism inviting scorn, reality advances and recedes through a spyglass of jingoist jargon and lovers' quarrels. On the surface, the two shows--a self-styled "political allegory with music" and an original drama about a suicidal writer--could hardly have less in common. But they share a propensity for mind games, whether political...
...male stars act impeccably. Grusin's twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...