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Gide's individualism led him to reject Communism (after a visit to the U.S.S.R. in 1936), and to scorn vulgar popularity. He once wrote: "I have passionately desired fame . . . [but] I like to be liked on good grounds." Apparently Gide, who thinks membership in the French Academy is beneath him, thought the Swedish Academy liked him on good grounds. He said the Nobel award made him "very happy." He was also richer by 146,115 Swedish crowns...
...average citizen, labor's fury and consternation over the Taft-Hartley Act was a cause for mild astonishment. It had long seemed inevitable that the Wagner Act would be replaced by a more conservative measure. Labor excesses and labor's stupidity-its irresponsible use of strikes, its scorn of public opinion, its tolerance of gangsters in its ranks-had hastened the advent of such...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...Burkhart wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...Retreating Bear. Such dogged chart-watching and weaseling aroused the scorn of the Herald Tribune's C. Norman Stabler, loud exponent of the horse-sense school. He contended that the rally last May was actually the start of a new bull market. Stabler's thesis was that the market, having slumped in a period of rising production (see chart), had counted too heavily on a recession which has not yet developed. And alltime record earnings (see Earnings) made stocks bargains which people were sure to buy, thus bid up prices. (He ignored the fact that the rise began...