[Fightin Whitey]

“contumaciously”

Excellent!

Thirty years ago when I still read three newspapers a day Russell Baker wrote a piece entitled “In Praise of Ignorant Contumely,” which was very fine and very funny.

I carried around the faded newsprint copy for some years but eventually it was lost.

Even now in the near-deathless age of google I have been unable to dig it up again. But thanks for resurrecting the term, for me at least.

[untenured]

Is it here? (On the left side.) It's got "contumely," "ignorant" and "Russell Baker," and it's 29 years old.

Remarkably, in its history the NYT has printed about a dozen articles with the words "contumely," "Russell" and "Baker." (And not all of them by Russell Baker.)

[PLMerite]

Here’s another one:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19830327&id=-KZYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QOIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6909,6305516