Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he warns that ,the human implications of truth are tragic, he does not condemn the pursuit of happiness which modern civilization, more than any other, has legitimatized. But he implies that the pursuit of happiness loses measure, just as optimism loses reality, if neither is aware of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." And he gives a discipline of mind and a structure of meaning to the tragic cry of Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno: "A Miserere sung in a cathedral by a multitude tormented by destiny has as much value as a philosophy...
...Facts are facts - we cannot deny that. But the fact that there is one rotten apple in the barrel should not be sufficient cause to condemn all. W. M. KRIEGER Managing Director National Selected Morticians Chicago...
This man Merwin K. Hart gives so clear an impression of being little more than a pygmy menace that it is difficult to rise to Jovian levels of condemnation. In his speech last night, for instance, which was sponsored by the Free Enterprise Society, a number of remarks proved him beyond doubt to be an anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore...
While it is unfair to condemn the Placement Service because it may not perform its work at some future date, a general expansion of its activities could increase its efficiency today, and guarantee it against the threat of the future. Information now on file in the Registrar's Office, the Office of Student Testing, and Hygiene Department, if collected and kept on file in the Placement Office, would enable the job counselor to have before him at once the medical, educational, social and economic background of any student seeking aid. At the same time, close contact with firms ready...
...unjustly vitiated in your effort to show what a courageous, clever, sophisticated, mendacious reporter you were. It contained much unwarranted sareasm (with which only a jilted Harvard man can defend himself). It lacked good taste and was an unfair picture of a fine school. I would not condemn a man for writing an unfavorable criticism against my school if he had a sound basis for it, but I'm sure you do not realize what a sad mistake you have made...