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George Will, in the LAT , Michael Kelly in the WP , a NYT op-ed by a law professor and the Post 's lead editorial all question whether such laws further the cause of tolerance and suggest that they represent a threat to the sanctity of prote cted, even if contemptible, personal thought and speech.
Blumenthal's contemptible insinuations are a reminder that there is nearly always something provincial and self-serving about the response of American intellectuals to Whittaker Chambers."
If gambling were the grim scourge portrayed by its opponents, it would not have gone from a contemptible vice to an innocent diversion in a single generation.
I think he means "contemptible," but you get the idea.
But the screenplay about Nicaragua presented these elements as a simple Marxist fable--the contemptible elite kidnap victims, the loathsome U.S. imperialists, the heroic revolutionary kidnappers.