The first group ridiculed the second, and the second group despised and resented the first, in part because that ridicule was performed with a light touch — with a sketch and a caption, and little else.
Early playwrights followed suit, putting audiences in the same emotional position as Elizabeth, at first despising a flat, rather uncolourful would-be hero.
Jan, forced to work as a kitchen porter, at first despises Ferda's petitions against arrests and censorship as the self-indulgence of an intellectual clique.
Vincent Canby, who enjoyed the first film and despised the second, felt that Return of the Jedi was the worst of all three.
The veto-wielding Security Council powers -- the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia -- treat smaller countries as "second class, despised" nations, Gadhafi said.
But Africa's post-colonial history is littered with tales of strongmen who were first welcomed, then despised.
Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey, despised by Giants fans both because he played for the hated Los Angeles rivals and for his Mr. Clean image, told the journalist Nick Peters: "I remember walking back to the tunnel after a one-run loss, and something whizzed by me.
First ignored, then despised for using the "oil weapon" on the West, and ultimately granted a strange legitimacy due to age, it has assumed all the trappings of an international organization.
Actually, the expression "Third World" was coined by the French economist Alfred Sauvy in a 1952 article with reference to all non-industrialised nations: "for this Third World ignored, exploited, despised as the Third Estate was, itself aspires to become something".
