Word: snubbing
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...argument for Socrates' African origins, for example, is based largely on posthumous portraits that show him having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...
Only when our culture places as much of a focus upon teaching and enjoying music as it does upon teaching the multiplication tables will we produce a new generation of symphony-goers. And then, perhaps, the only thing "Immature" about music will be those who snub their noses at the classics...
...budget impasse apparently is payback time for a snub on the Air Force One flight to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral last week. An agitated Newt Gingrich told reporters today that he and Bob Dole have been simmering ever since President Clinton refused to discuss the looming budget problem during their 25 hours in the air together. In fact, Gingrich said, Clinton flatly avoided them. "Both of us got on that airplane expecting to spend several hours talking about the budget and how do we avoid the shutdown," Gingrich said. "Every president we had ever flown with had us up front...
...Rockefellers, lectured blue-blood investment bankers and stopped by Time Inc., the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Castro even made the front pages of the tabloids when he--like Yasser Arafat--was declared unwelcome at several parties by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The snub simply ratcheted up awareness of Castro's presence, once again proving that there is no such thing as bad publicity...
Offutt and his staff are still smarting from what they see as the latest vengeful snub by the government. Jim Nelson, supervisor of the Toiyabe and Humboldt national forests, was scheduled to meet with Nye's commissioners one day this summer to try to ease the mounting hostility. That morning one of Nelson's employees delivered a letter to the gathered commissioners stating that Nelson would not be coming after all; he says now he couldn't attend because of the pending Justice lawsuit. The commissioners weren't terribly surprised, says Rachel Nicholson, a county attorney also present in Offutt...