Word: scorns
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...Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing the names and photos of the perpetrators; you should signal that school violence leads only to certain punishment and scorn...
...basic plot—of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Set to the libretto of Mozart’s fellow Freemason Emanuel Schikaneder, it offers such an idealistic view of human nature and interpersonal relationships that it seems in danger of being laughed to scorn by modern audiences. But on the March 17 closing night performance of its recent Die Zauberflöte production, New York’s Metropolitan Opera demonstrated just how powerful and convincing Mozart’s final opera really is. In the hands of the Met’s skillful...
...hour on Monday urged the Chinese to send the plane home without "further tampering" - is unlikely to earn brownie points with a U.S. administration that sees China as a strategic rival, rather than as a strategic partner (as President Clinton described Beijing). Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao poured scorn on the U.S. claim of plane's sovereignty on Tuesday, telling reporters, "If this plane is sovereign American territory, how did it land in China...
More than 40 Philippine websites have been hacked in the past year, including those of the nation's navy and air force, popular portal Yehey.com and AMA computer college. On many of the sites hackers have left obscene messages berating the system administrator for sloppy security while also heaping scorn on rival hackers, in a boasting battle similar to those between rappers. "When creativity expresses itself in an immature way, it can often be destructive," says Randy David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where...
Manet's paintings rarely sold (luckily, he had some money of his own). For most of his short career--he was 51 when he died--he was ferociously assailed by nearly every critic and journalist in Paris. (Some of them actually liked his still lifes and reserved their scorn for his portraits and figures.) His greatest paintings, Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which today are among the unquestioned masterpieces of the 19th century and are seen by many as the twin pillars that mark and hold up the entrance to modernism, were pilloried by every man of taste...