Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African soldiers have nothing but contempt for the idea of a U.N. ceasefire proposal that would replace them with 5,000 peace-keeping troops. Says one officer: "Five thousand men haven't got a hope in hell of monitoring a ceasefire. Before the last South African soldier was back across the border, SWAPO would be in Namibia." However, crossing the Angolan border at will, as South Africa has been doing, could backfire. Third World frustration over Pretoria's failure to make concessions at Geneva has generated renewed demands by black African nations like oil-rich Nigeria...
While working at the Times, Pulitzer prizewinner Hersh had written numerous stories Unking Korry with the Chilean debacle. In one article, he reported that Korry was about to be charged with contempt of Congress for misleading testimony before the Senate committee. Says Korry: "Hersh was the first reporter to stick it to me hard." Admits Hersh: "I led the way in trashing him." When Korry protested to Hersh and other reporters that some witnesses had lied to the Senate committee about his role, only one newsman, Joe Trento of the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, investigated the case in detail...
...general target of the protest were the bureaucrats in University Hall, who the drivers said had treated them with contempt. So when Buildings and Grounds officials, who operate the shuttle service, said Thursday they were willing to at least listen to the drivers' requests, the shuttle stalemate was over...
...against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught in snapshots and thrown into a drawer, are obvious and pallid...
Imagine the contempt and derision with which this was received in Langdell, Baker, Littauer, William James and the Computer Center. With all the important skills necessary to manipulate a great university, the godstruck old fool had cited something as intangible as a belief. For it was not only Pusey's belief in God which was pitiful and funny: it was his belief in belief of any kind. Nothing more amuses the men who run this university--and their compatriots who run our society--than men with beliefs and no power...