Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST LIBERALS would probably condemn the McCarthy era as one of the low points in American "democracy." But for some reason, the same people forget, consciously or otherwise, that Richard Nixon was not only one of McCarthy's most ardent admirers, but one of his staunchest allies as well. Nixon, packaged as an upstanding defender of democracy on the basis of his unwavering condemnation of those who took the fifth before McCarthy's committee, received in 1952 the Republican vice presidential nomination as reward for his assiduous loyalty to the Wisconsin senator...
...have apprehensively begun to question the basis for the distribution of medical authority and its concurrent responsibilities. Centuries ago the delegation of that responsibility to an individual whom we would be quick to condemn as a primitive medicine man stemmed from his possession of some sort of divine right. Today the physician's privilege to practice results from years of expensive classroom education and extensive clinical training. And yet, the modern physician's privilege--one that we would say is based upon more objective criteria than that of the early medicine man--must now be reexamined. For we must delineate...
...said also that he would never use the vice presidency as a "pulpit" from which to condemn the administration...
...matter what play they are doing, while dismembered department-store mannequins and blood-stained clothing are common props in current Polish stage design.) The strength of Mrozek's allusion varies from play to play, but in all three works in the present collection, one senses a desperate effort to condemn and at the same time to explain the actions of individuals under Hitler. "This is how people operate," Mrozek seems to be saying. "I'm putting them in absurd situations, of course, but they behaved just as absurdly in a real situation not too long...
...This was the big shift, probably spearheaded by President Bok over the no doubt vehement objections of George F. Bennett'33, treasurer, who had successfully (and sincerely) argued in previous proxy fights that the University had no business meddling in corporate management. The necessity for Harvard to not only condemn but actively oppose certain actions of corporations in which it invested put Harvard clearly in the vanguard of universities as far as corporate responsibility goes...