Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious Juggernaut? Meanwhile, the Christian Century reached its 40,000 subscribers with one of the sharpest attacks on Billy yet made anywhere-far rougher than the criticism from Roman Catholics three weeks ago (TIME, May 6). With well-bred disdain, the Century regarded Billy as a sinister and strange "new junction of Madison Avenue and the Bible Belt . . . Radio and television will be carrying the voice and image of blond sincerity into homes long conditioned to recognize packaged virtue and desperate now for almost any kind of sincerity. It simply cannot fail. With trainloads of well-saved out-of-town...
...spite of mutual back kitchen disdain, each coffee house serves its demitasse and mocha in a civilized setting of folk music, artiness and urbanity. And for only 50 cents...
...Nevada's George W. Malone, Indiana's William Ezra Jenner and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. Both Malone and Jenner (who already is braying against Eisenhower Republicanism back home in Indiana) are considered unbeatable for Republican nomination. Only McCarthy, who is being looked upon with disdain by a growing number of Wisconsin voters, seems to be in for serious challenge-probably from former (1951-56; Republican Governor Walter Kohler...
...star-struck look, he also has a good voice. As his misguided but well-intentioned nurse, Anne Hardwood behaved like a fugitive from Medea; a bit frantic but riproaring. The Major-General was played most modelly by Owen Jander; from his House of Lords gait to his Victorian disdain, Jander was excellent...
Throughout his quarter-century writing career, Fisher has shown proper disdain for artistic forms and conventions. Rightly called by Van Wyck Brooks, "The greatest living American writer," Fisher's appeal is primarily intellectual, not aesthetic. Contrary to most living American writers, he has a great deal to say and a large number of highly original ideas. His writing is voluminous, averaging a book a year, and hence usually gives the impression of haste, but this is vindicated by his great concern with honesty in the relation of his materials...