Word: scorns
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...often you hear Supreme Court Justices treat their brethren with such scorn, or trash a recent decision as being dead wrong--or see lawyers weep as a ruling is read. But Thursday was an emotional day inside and outside the court, as preachers prayed and scholars marveled and gay-rights activists struggled to find the right words, since they were more used to slamming the court than saluting...
...because it gets no respect. In particular, it gets no respect from its neighbor across the Hudson River. When you work in Manhattan, as I have for each of the past two summers, you get a pretty good idea of just how much New Yorkers love to scorn New Jersey. City-dwellers, it would seem, generally have the utmost contempt for the Garden State—that is, until they get married, have children and decide to move there for bigger houses, better public schools and, oh yeah, grass...
...justice" tradition, he says, "there was always discussion about the injustices and inequalities around the world and what we should do about it." But he does not think that Christ's word needs further elucidation in the region. Referring to indigenous churches that Evangelicals tend to ignore or scorn as compromised, he says, "You have to realize that Christianity has been part of the Middle East for 2,000 years. People here know all about my religion and don't need me to explain it. I don't feel I have anything more to teach the Muslims than they have...
DIED. KATHLEEN WINSOR, 83, whose 1944 novel Forever Amber was the first of a genre of racy, romantic best sellers; at her home in New York City. The book chronicled the sexual adventures of a young woman in Restoration England and drew the scorn of censors, including the Massachusetts attorney general, who counted 70 references to sexual intercourse and 39 illegitimate pregnancies in its 972 pages...
Those priorities do not include the arts. Which does not mean a scorn for the arts or a cynical willingness to sell them short. But curiously, it seems to me, the very climate we’re in now with a new or newish president, provost, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean, dean of Harvard College and head of the Office for the Arts; with the review of undergraduate education and with the ongoing effort to figure out what to do with Allston makes this a pivotal time for Harvard arts advocacy...