Word: condemn
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Which is not to condemn Kafka in the least, for his suffering was truly awful: Hayman believes that it was quite an achievement for the writer to have salvages as much as he did from his despair. Even Edmund Wilson, in an essay that otherwise sternly downplays the importance of his work, concedes that "the cards were stacked against poor Kafka in an overpowering...
...vague and sloppy way, the entire American criminal justice system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, to clunk, snarling, from one literary dinner party to another...
...SEVERAL YEARS, students at this University fought to force Harvard out of South Africa. They rallied and marched, they researched and they wrote, they argued, and eventually, they lost. A Harvard Corporation more interested in income than justice refused to get rid of Harvard's holdings; it refused to condemn American investment in South Africa; and in the years since, it has refused to vote for almost any of the innocuous shareholder resolutions concerning the apartheid-ruled nation...
Despite his earlier position on registration, Reagan feared that abolishing the program would project an image of American weakness at a time when the United States is pressuring its allies to condemn the Soviet Union for backing the Polish crackdown, administration and Congressional sources said this week...
Speaking during a recent interview with film critics in New York, Taps producer Stanley Jaffe insisted that his movie does not condemn military high schools in general. Instead, he said Taps questions "whether we really know what we are teaching our children and how they will interpret it." It's an interesting question, and one answer--which somehow manages to ooze out of this ill-conceived flick--is precisely the condemnation the producer intended to avoid...