Word: disdained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than neglect, there is a positive disdain for anything that smacks of professionalism: training, preparation or the patient and painful mastery of the literature, difficulty by difficulty. The Harvard musician thinks he is above all that, and sees no reason why he should not tackle the most difficult works at the start. He's knowledgeable and versed enough in recordings to know which pieces are considered the best and the most difficult and it's hard for him to see how anything else would be worth his while...
...concentrates in music, he is in grave danger of losing whatever musicality he might have had in the first place. The Harvard musician's aversion to the idea of intensive study of music as a necessary prelude to prelude to performing is thus only half arrogance and disdain: it is also fear--which the music department is directly responsible for fostering...
...professor whose book, which he described as "an innovation in scholarship," was rejected, complained that the Press chooses conservative readers who disdain "anything that doesn't plod along the same old rut." But the Press's system of obtaining several readings of disputed works and the generally forward-looking attitude of the Board of Syndics makes such complaints rare...
...Sacred Cows. In his summing up, Blake suggests that it was this profound disdain for all the sacred cows of English life and government that fed Dizzy's antagonists. Yet, his opportunism and imagination created an impressive political legacy. It was he who first formulated the now-obvious parliamentary principle that "it is the duty of the opposition to oppose." It was Dizzy who wrought the Reform Bill of 1867, giving the vote for the first time to large numbers of the emerging industrial class in Britain. He shaped and dramatized the Tory sense of larger world responsibilities. With...
...tight smile of disdain sneered across the wily features of F's lover, "If I shared you with my friends and had them whip, and beat and mutilate you with hot irons and anonymously cross your private portals, if you know what I mean, would you still love...