Word: blameless
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...ludicrous." He labeled them a "moronic Garden appeasement movement," a "pity party" and advised us to ignore their "whining." He dragged out his sarcasm, that verbal hidden dagger, in referring to the "cruel fate" and the "alleged suffering" of the Garden Streeters. He even managed a gratuitous insult against blameless Thayer Hall...
Victoria proved remarkably blameless in her public conduct, but it has been less and less easy for her descendants. There were problems with her eldest son as Prince of Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
...similar scenario was played out when Magic Johnson announced that he had AIDS: the subtext was that even straight (read: blameless) people got AIDS. Because he was a convenient illustration of this fact, Magic became a spokesperson for AIDS education and prevention (there was even a children's special about him on cable TV) in a way that no gay AIDS patient has been. The same thing will most likely happen to Ashe unless he chooses to protect his privacy from further intrusions. He is to be respected for living with AIDS for three years and refusing to make...
...fame of these individuals merely due to their prior status as celebrities. People also become celebrities if they symbolize the blameless AIDS sufferer, as did Kimberly Bergalis when she contracted AIDS from her dentist last year. My intention is not to brush aside these patients' sufferings or to impugn their motives, but to point out the cultural trend of recognizing two separate and unequal classes of AIDS patients...
...male athlete. Tyson's skill made him champ. The glamour that fans saw in Tyson helped him think he was invincible, immune to rejection or conviction. And his belief in his machismo -- the male athlete's mandatory arrogance -- made him insist that, in the matter of rape, he was blameless...