Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadians faced with similar problems, we applaud President Reagan's determination to dismantle his country's tangled web of pyramiding bureaucracy. But we question his increased military spending in contrast with massive cuts for the arts and humanities. Certainly, every nation should maintain its defenses. But if that means neglecting its precious arts and culture, the U.S. may survive but, in fact, cease to live...
Throughout the NATO countries there is a widespread conviction that if the U.S. would just resume arms-control talks with the Soviets, Europe could get on with peace and prosperity again. The European press was quick to applaud Leonid Brezhnev's surprise call for a U.S.-Soviet summit at the recent Soviet Party Congress and his subsequent letters to Western political leaders expressing his interest in arms limitation. In stark contrast, President Reagan is often portrayed as a reckless warmonger intent on bombing the Soviets "back to the Stone Age," as the West German weekly Stern recently...
...They worry that the Reagan Administration's military plans for the Pacific may include the sale of modern warplanes to Taiwan, which the People's Republic regards as a violation of the terms by which diplomatic relations were established two years ago. Also while officials in Peking applaud the hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric now coming out of Washington, they say that they are still awaiting "concrete actions." In any case, they caution that the Soviet military challenge is too big for any imaginable American response to handle...
...force of Wolf's argument makes humanity's apparent ease at distinguishing between murder and execution, torture and punitive action, no longer troubling. We recognize man's abhorrence of murder and violence, and, at the same time, applaud his acceptance of the legitimacy of those acts when performed by the Government. We are seduced by the obvious distinctions...
Periodic "renewals" are endemic to the American way of life at all levels. We live in flux, have always done so, and probably always will. Therefore, while I applaud your articles, I wish that the idea of the experiment had been more central to them...