Word: contemptã
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...Surrendered” is, finally, a romance obscured in sorrow—a ballad of Hector and June’s love affairs with life. Both are prone to fighting—Hector with his fists and June with her cold contempt??but they fight hard because of the imminent isolation threatening to consume them whole. They recognize that war has rendered them forever incomplete, lacking any conviction in human solidarity. Hector, musing about the war, sees a couple embracing: “They were both slight of frame and not tall, and if he hadn?...
...looked more breathtaking—not only is the camera finally still (his earlier films were often shot on hand-held cameras), but the angles are expertly measured to give a messy apartment and a Mediterranean horizon the same sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt?? is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers of the French New Wave movement, along with the likes of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard seemed to concern himself not only with subverting ideas...
...former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 laments. Lewis holds students and people like former Princeton president William G. Bowden responsible for not regarding athletes as “regular students,” and charges that this attitude of “public contempt?? is the last acceptable prejudice at Harvard. I share his concern. But it is primarily the policies of the College itself, not the prejudices of athletes or non-athletes, that create this condition...
...University of Arkansas study, summarized, homophobia is “not a conceptually accurate [term].” That is because homophobia implies a pathological disgust tantamount to anxiety or fear of homosexuality. In reality, participants in the Arkansas study reacted with “moral contempt?? to homosexuality...
...fill them with campaign propaganda misrepresented as personal views. The entire operation smacks of utter disrespect for the role of journalism and uninhibited debate within a free society. It parallels the Bush administration’s general approach to the media, which includes a sense of entitlement and contempt??an attitude which is echoed regularly in the White House’s theatrical misinformation campaigns and denunciations of “unpatriotic” dissent...
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