Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neutral point of departure. The present century has made a fetish out of scholarly objectivity, with good reason; let us hope that the achievements of editors like Gwynne Evans in restoring Shakespeare is as real as it looks now, and not the kind of self-delusion we condemn in earlier ages...
...even more important that a commission be appointed to expose for the record their crimes so that future generations may know what happened. For this reason none of those indicted for crimes such as Calley committed, or for the Watergate break-in, should be sent to prison. Expose and condemn them, yes, but do not imprison them...
...grows harder to condemn the Pudding Show for its irrelevance, stupider to condemn it for its sexism, and more boring even to think about it in any kind of a serious way. In a better world the show would be sick and degenerate, but in this one it's non-pathological and normal. The show is one of those emminently ignorable things not worth going to unless you've got friends in the cast or something. That this is one of the better shows to come along is hardly going to make 1974 for me, or anyone else...
...important part of this growing fan cynicism is the professional athlete's increasing preoccupation with money. This is not to condemn the athletes, for they were underpaid in the past. Yet while competition between leagues has increased salaries, so too has it torn down the veneer of awe that used to separate the fan and the player. The player has become a highly publicized, salaried worker. He has stepped down from the pedestal as a result of his own doing. Like other American workers, he goes to the highest bidder...
...Communist leaders of Soviet Russia are outraged by comparisons between Stalinist Russia and Hitlerite Germany made by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. They condemn Solzhenitsyn for informing the free world that the Government of Imperial Russia was "liberal" and "loving" toward the people and that Hitlerites were "gracious" and "merciful" both to the Russians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, which the West failed to protect from the Soviet occupation...