Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truong-Humphrey case indicates not only Carter's maintenance of a foolish Cold-Warrior attitude towards Vietnam, it represents an infringement of civil liberties. For these reasons we condemn the conviction of David Truong and Ronald Humphrey and hope that they will receive a fair trial in their appeal...
These rough judgments cannot wholly condemn their maker. H.L. Mencken was above and below all an entertainer who liked to shock. In the process of making errors, he freed the language from cant and proved a tonic influence on writers from Sherwood Anderson to Norman Mailer. His tragedy was in staying too long at the zoo until his fellow visitors began to notice a want of sympathy and substance. Back in 1942, Critic Alfred Kazin observed that Mencken's "conception of the aesthetic life . . . was monstrous in its frivolity and ignorance." Others soon echoed the critique. Finally, even...
...Critics condemn the working paper as a retreat to old-fashioned churchly paternalism and complain that it plays down Latin America's social and economic ills. In one section, for instance, the poor are promised the consolations of faith, which will allow them "to live in fortitude and enjoy that happiness of the kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society...
...amalgam of autobiography and critique begins with a theory of literature. Happily, this soon gives way to anecdota and reminiscence. Once a fellow traveler, Cowley quickly discerned the moral abyss of Stalinism. But he refused to condemn those who remained on the barricades. In one of the most quoted valedictions of the '30s, he wrote...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association does not condemn the constitution simply because lesbians and gay men were denied representation. The Association objects to the failure of the Convention to establish explicit criteria for determining what groups qualify for special representation. The Association believes that the Convention debate was conducted in an atmosphere of power politics, and not with a genuine concern for fairness to minority or disadvantaged groups...