Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Condemn the Press
...golden legend, his opponents had created the black legend of Napoleon." Two socialist-minded French historians, ex-Naval Officer Louis de Villefosse and his wife Janine Bouissonouse, attack Napoleon ferociously in a recently published book, L'Opposition à Napoléon. In j'accusé tones, they condemn Napoleon for "reestablishing slavery in the [French] colonies and the black slave trade. We could go as far as to charge him with racism and fascism. No, decidedly, it is not respect for law that he taught Europe, but the religion of force. He was fundamentally antidemocratic. Napoleon...
...social sins. But as the nation recognizes the le gitimate demands of the black revolution, it must also acknowledge the legitimate fears of the white reaction. Otherwise, feeling threatened, the marginal whites themselves may threaten a society that they feel has betrayed them. It does little good to condemn - and further alienate - pre cisely those working-class whites whose good will and co operation are vital to achieving racial peace and urban progress...
Between the extreme partisans?those who hail the phenomenon as liberation and those who condemn it as decadence?there is room for some serious con cern about what it means in American life. In a sense, the creative arts and even their sleazy offshoots?blue movies, smut books, peepshows, prurient tabloids ?hold a public mirror to a society's private fantasies. A nation gets the kind of art and entertainment it wants and will pay for. Thus to many serious critics, and they are by no means all bluenoses or comstockians, the explosion of salacity in cinema, theater...
...played and everybody stands up together." Without the monarchy, Britain would be simply another minipower. Charles may or may not resent having been born to be a king. But for years to come, little old British mums will continue to dote on royalty while angry young critics will condemn it. It is at once the pride and the burden of the monarchy that both will be right...