Did the blithe contempt for historical accuracy tweak your bustle?
From Marc Peloquin's evening of this composer's piano music at Bargemusic on Friday night, you could infer a creator's gentle contempt for historical relevance and continuity.
He describes the latter as "an incurious 'presentism' – combining a lack of historical sense, a pervasive contempt for the wisdom of the past, a fascination with novelty simply because it is new and a propensity to over-react to every ephemeral focus group finding or tabloid whim".
But Anthony does more: building upon his investigation into the historical crimes of segregation and contempt for the city's black residents, he turns a concluding sequence of civic pride and good cheer into a brilliantly light-hearted fantasy of grave import, a radical political utopia conjured with a deft artistic flourish.
The film is an entirely fictional musical entertainment, and in the words of one reviewer, "historical facts are treated with particular contempt".
42 Cooter believes the fundamental incongruity between historical and bioethical methodologies renders historians 'speechless in contempt, silent for political reasons, dumb for fear of offending'.
He not only charted the course of his son's research and proofed his early books; he also passed on his devotion to liberalism, contempt for Communism and yearning to broaden historical perspectives.
The "government" label of the Cornell department proved congenial to Anderson's historical-cultural approach, and he did not disguise his contempt for what he saw as the scientific delusions of American political science.
In the preceding period when there was no emigration from Turkey, Mexico's experience was characterised by undesirable and demographically challenging emigration, which led to a historical legacy of scepticism towards emigrants, with several forms of contempt in the society and even a sense of being betrayed.
And both Scalia and Stevens treat each other -- and, presumably, their colleagues who signed each of the opinions -- with basic contempt, unable to accept the proposition, second nature to professional historians, that the historical record is complicated and, indeed, often contradictory.
