Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story, "Swinging Lady" [Aug. 11], you quote me as paying the London Times a compliment on its courageous stand over the Mick Jagger case. This I did. But on the same occasion I also listed many more examples of where I feel the new management of that paper has seriously damaged its reputation and authority. In omitting these criticisms, I fear that your report suggested quite wrongly that I approve of the Times in its swinging reincarnation...
...Arthur and Aristophanes' Lyslstrata were likely to include elegant versions of whippings and other aberrations; they shocked the Victorian age while also appealing strongly to the lively pornographic and demonic subculture that flourished in London and Paris. One critic called Beardsley the "Fra Angelico of Satanism." A handsome compliment, but slightly exaggerated. He suggested an elegant imp as much as a Satanic friar...
...Canada Discovers Itself" [May 5] was a compliment to our often unrecognized northern neighbors...
...complain that this is too much money, continued Johnson, "I would like to suggest that we cannot logically oppose the effects of poverty and the efforts to relieve them. We can not abhor the disease and then fight the cure." He also went out of his way to compliment the "able and inspiring" Sargent Shriver, the antipoverty czar. Besides having to endure indirect criticism from Brother-in-Law Bobby, Shriver has had his budget requests cut sharply, and faces a Republican campaign to disband his Office of Economic Opportunity entirely...
...liberals return the compliment. As Critic Irving Howe puts it, the New Leftists show "an unconsidered enmity toward something vaguely called the Establishment, an equally unreflective belief in the 'decline of the West,' a crude, unqualified anti-Americanism, drawn from every source...