Word: condemn
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...impression that the Harvard administration harbored any sympathy or complacency toward the tone and substance of the letter. Such action does not infringe on free speech. Indeed, statements of disagreement are part and parcel of the open debate that freedom of speech is meant to encourage; the right to condemn a point of view is protected by the right to express it. Of course, I recognize that even verbal disapproval by persons in positions of authority may have inhibiting effects on students. Nevertheless, this possibility is not sufficient to outweigh he need for officials to speak out on matters...
...must confront a mother whose anger and resentment for her son never found relief, a sister-in-law mistress who is less a lover than a woman seeking a man whose betrayal is even more deplorable than her own, and a brother who never had a chance to openly condemn or forgive his sibling. From the perspective of the Renaud family. Gaston is no more than an object upon which to sent hitherto unspoken and repressed old passions, jealousies and condemnations...
...from Gaston's perspective, the Renaud family remains decidedly unreal, a chorus of voices in a buried conscience. In one day Gaston is forced to adopt the guilt of the 18 years he lived as Jacques Renaud, to both condemn and deny the man he once was. The intrigues of the Renand family would certainly be far easier to dramatize, but Director Holly Swartz has opted to focus on the more compelling, psychological drama of Gaston until the tension between guilt, responsibility and freedom reaches a disturbing, unresolved height...
...imperialism." He also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. The remarks came on top of Greece's continuing opposition to the deployment of new NATO missiles in Western Europe, as well as Papandreou's refusal to condemn Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Poland...
...Vatican has not yet responded to this appraisal, but top officials in the past have emphasized that they do not condemn all struggles of the oppressed for liberation, only those that rely on Marxism for solutions. Concludes Ratzinger: "If one thinks on how radical is the interpretation of Christianity derived from it, the problem of how one can and must confront it becomes so much more urgent...