Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dismissing the president's decontrol and deregulation plans as misleading, Tsongas zeroes in on his favorite topic--the Kemp-Roth tax cut proposals. Tsongas has only scorn for the 30-per-cent three-year reduction plan; he calls it "very inflationary and economically unjust." He adds that in Washington "everyone knows that Kemp-Roth is a dog, and they're going to kill it in the Congress." What really makes the 39-year-old first-term senator angry is that in the short run, Reagan "can say he was for it without suffering any of the political ramifications...
Even former Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson joined the fight, dismissing the Wembley vote as "a shambles" and heaping scorn on Benn's devotion to "the divine right of shop stewards...
...restoration of pride to a nation that had been humbled for too long by a puny tormentor was but one of the many reactions of Americans to Iran's final release of the 52 U.S. hostages last week. There was a sense of relief too. And scorn for Iran. But above all the initial dominant mood was one of continuing celebration, from the moment the first plane carrying the former captives cleared Iranian airspace to the climactic touchdown on U.S. soil of Freedom One just before 3 p.m. on truly Super Sunday at Stewart Airport, 50 miles north...
Hughes, who is TIME'S art critic, makes a confident, opinionated guide. Some of his greatest scorn is directed at modern architecture. Though he praises Le Corbusier as an inventor of shapes, he showers contempt upon his most famous projects: Chandigarh, the Indian city built at the foot of the Himalayas, and the Unité d'Habitation, the huge apartment house outside Marseille. Hughes visits the Marseille building and stops in the shopping mall that Corbu put inside. It is empty. The French like the bustle of a real marketplace. Corbusier, says Hughes, thought of everything...
...poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong...