Word: contempts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hallinan, a California civil rights and criminal lawyer, was nominated this summer while serving a jail sentence for contempt of court. He was indicted after serving as defense council in the Harry Bridges deportation case...
Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...
...felt, and failed to conceal, an utter contempt for the Old Bolsheviks' sentimental, old-grad memories and their pious reverence for the prophets Marx and Engels. "It is impossible to believe," wrote a British observer, "that there is no contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin...
...audience repeatedly interrupted Stevenson with applause. Nor did the crowd show hostility when he frankly told them that he would stand by the Democratic platform's civil-rights plank. Said Stevenson: "I should justly earn your contempt if I talked one way in the South and another way elsewhere...
...London Times noted the 100th anniversary of the death of the Duke of Wellington, and credited him with founding the tradition of English understatement. Said the Times: "The personality of the Duke, conveyed in a thousand stories, which glorify a reticence, simplicity, and a fierce contempt for false sentimentality, has become a national myth. Like all myths, it has helped powerfully to form manners. Understatement has, in fact, become a national characteristic, and Englishmen, in the 18th century as lachrymose as any people in Europe, have given up weeping in public...