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Word: contemptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...should be possible to love one's country intelligently, without being either a schlockmeister or an incipient Nazi. (Anyone incapable of distinguishing between the Third Reich and the U.S. is a moral imbecile.) Patriotism seems so easy to discredit that it dies of contempt a few hours after budding. But the real problem is deeper. Americans who would be patriots must try to learn what it is that they have in common, what it is in the republic that is worth cherishing and preserving. Until they know that, their patriotism will have no more content than a bright, loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Return of Patriotism | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...side stands Amy Benesch as Jean, a bitchy schoolmarm who can't hide her horniness or her contempt for men. A female chauvinist, Joan has less appeal than Bernie because she lacks a sense of humor about life in the sink. She exists as Deborah's lampshade, a taut mask on a bulb of sexual freedom...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Loop Libido | 3/8/1980 | See Source »

...just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry from "Private Life...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fallen Music | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

...latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Night Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Kristol said American liberalism has moved progressively from laissez-faire doctrine to the welfare state to a radical position that "holds American values in contempt instead of celebrating the American way of life...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Kristol and Glazer Describe Neoconservatism | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

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