Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to accept the accompanying assumption of the passive middle: that low interest and low involvement in public affairs are proof of superiority. The fastidious who deplore the kind of people engaged in politics or wrapped up in causes have in fact left the field to those whom they condemn. They may think themselves the backbone of society and the ultimate arbiters of change, but history is apt to judge them differently. For change conies from those who care, who propose and agitate, modified by those who care differently and oppose; the rest is inertia. The inert middle...
...Lenny Bruce, hypocrisy was the prime obscenity. He wanted to exorcise it publicly. He wanted the hypocrite in each member of the audience to confess and condemn himself. He was a messianic imp of the perverse who wanted to cleanse souls through blasphemy, to free language with four-letter words, to restore nudity and copulation and natural bodily functions to the innocent purposes of nature...
...private discussions after Ma'alot, Syrian officials did not condone the Arab raids or condemn Israel for retaliating. To U.S. diplomats that was a clear sign that the Syrians ? despite their support of the Palestinian cause ? did not want last week's twin massacres to interfere with negotiations. When Kissinger at one point suggested that the talks could be postponed temporarily, both sides insisted that he continue...
Other speakers called upon the U.S. government and the United Nations Security Council to condemn Arab "terrorists" and "Arab states that harbor terrorists...
...condemn Conrack for loose threads is like rejecting a lover for ugly toenails. At its best, the film embodies necessary humane values of a vigorous society: charity, strength and imagination...