Word: sneeringer
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Scientists are, of course, accepted as intellectuals, but with qualifications. Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer, for instance, is unquestionably accepted, but not necessarily Conservative Edward Teller. Members of other disciplines concede intellectual status only to the most creative and original scientists, relegating the rest into a vast limbo of mere technicians...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that...
Sir: Your sneering little accounts of "Life-Italian Style" [Feb. 19] amused me, particularly as I had just finished reading about Life-American Style in the preceding pages. But when I reached your Law section, you really made my "hot Italian blood" boil! I ask you, is it pure coincidence...
Next he was the sneering champion in Miami last February hooting: "Hypocrites! Whaddya say now, huh? Who's the greatest now?" And then he was the mysterious Black Muslim, Muhammad Ali, visiting the United Nations, stumping Africa, huddling with Nkrumah in Ghana.
The actor was Hollywood's greatest contribution to folklore-the Tramp, symbol of the indomitable little guy preposterously pitted against the tyranny of circumstances and the system. The man was something quite different -notoriously vain, snobbish, difficult to know and to work with. He thumbed his nose at the...