Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S inappropriately titled "Highway Robbery" article [Sept. 11] was poor journalism. Three horror stories out of millions of satisfactory auto-service cases a year don't suffice to condemn an entire industry. Neither is it right to parrot the authors advice to boycott franchised automobile dealers for service...
...terms of political orthodoxy. The biographers also have an unfortunate tendency to quote other people's superlatives as a justification for their own exaltation of Solzhenitsyn. The consensus of critics can no more save a piece of fiction than the vote of the Soviet Writers Union can condemn it. The authors' failure to give the sort of attention to the actual novels that they paid to the Solzhenitsyn-government tangle emasculates the novel as a critical biography...
Although Bok did not clearly condemn the decision, he said: "A particularly serious problem is whether the orderly functioning of the University is adequately protected by a apparent precedent that building seizures, however prolonged, will not result in substantial disciplinary action if no violence to persons or property occurs and the persons involved have no prior disciplinary record...
...Post for likening the U.S. to 19th century Prussia because it spent about two-thirds of "regular tax income" for military purposes (AIM claimed the U.S. figure was more like 40% of all income taxes). In June, AIM took a two-column ad in the New York Times to condemn Correspondent Anthony Lewis for reporting as fact from Hanoi that the U.S. mining of Haiphong harbor was ineffective without checking out the facts. AIM plans to place another ad in the Times charging Columnist Tom Wicker with a variety of minor inaccuracies over the past two years...
Angry protests greeted Perlik's pronouncement, mostly from the working journalists, who now form a minority within the 33,000-member union; the rest include such noneditorial employees as secretaries, business-office personnel and maintenance people. Petitions were quickly circulated to condemn the leadership's "outrageous, arbitrary action." The Guild's Minneapolis and Washington-Baltimore units disavowed Perlik's action...