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In no other city is voting for a corrupt and incompetent mayor an expression of protest against condescending parental authority.
Schoolchildren are guided into, first, O and, then, A Levels, corresponding to the School and Higher Certificates of my own English youth; these are set from Cambridge and incline, to my mind, to an all too often condescending leaning to local idiom-worship, from which most BeeWees want to free themselves.
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.
Unlike most films about evangelicalism, it is not a condescending "put-down of redneck religion" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The most vigorous plaudits go to Duvall's performance; critics predict that it will revive his career from a slump and win him an Oscar nomination.