Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conquered Arab territories, it came under fire from Arab organizations in the U.S., from black militants and the New Left, including some Jewish-born radicals. In Montreal, a paper set itself up as the other stand and took issue with the most virulent critics. The editors said they would condemn Israel's policies when they were "oppressive" but would never "work for her destruction...
...lyrical compassion a feat of overcoming, or is it the bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation incites the powers of rebellion which sheer sympathy does not have the cruelty to demand...
Just as in the fight for the Irish Free State, when the bishops favored British rule but the priests sympathized with the republicans, there are plenty of priests today who openly aid the army. "We condemn them and we confess them," as one Ulster priest puts it. Some of them have called upon the hierarchy to denounce both the British practice of interning suspected revolutionaries and the guerrillas' use of violence. One pro-army priest, Father Michael Connolly of Tipperary, flamboyantly asserts that the I.R.A. campaign is "not just a war, but a holy war against pagans and people...
There are other indications. A host should observe his guests when a particular masterpiece appears and "condemn as unworthy all those whose faces do not express their rapture." Among proper feeders there will also be silence during the first course while each man devotes himself "to the great task at hand." Indeed Brillat-Savarin approaches a feast like a happy warrior; nothing pleases him more than "a pretty gourmande in full battle dress...
Similarly, the fate of the Bengalis slaughtered last March and April mattered little in Nixon's calculations. Now there is a full-scale war in the Indian subcontinent, and another is brewing in the Middle East. Nixon may condemn India and North Vietnam, but he will not gain his "generation of peace" by invoking faded morality or by varying the quantity and kind of bombs dropped...