Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crime and conventional morality aside, the transmutation of base fame into gold does scratch at some deep nerve in the public psyche. Most observers would probably agree with Thomas Kerr, associate professor of business ethics at Carnegie-Mellon University, who would not condemn the "public for wanting titillating gossip" or the "media for giving the public what it wants." Yet people inevitably feel some unease because, as it is put by Eugene Secunda, New York University professor of advertising, marketing and media, "fame and infamy are often viewed in the same light...
...military. You point a finger at businessmen, educators, physicians, lawyers and almost every other segment of our society except publishers and editors. If you spent time researching your own profession, you would surely find an equivalent or even larger portion of it involved in the same activities you condemn in other fields...
...what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire, the proper answer is "Go to hell." Ben Bradlee, the Post's executive editor, did not quite condemn his reporter's intrusive question but lamely put it back on Hart: "I can't think of anyone else...
...Grand Palais. You brought the last-minute thrill of spontaneous animosity to a festival that had nearly suffocated in gentility. Until then, this assembly of 30,000 producers, directors, stars, distributors, critics and other swains of the celluloid muse could find little to cheer and even less to condemn. Oh, sure, you could watch Michael Sarrazin strangle a nude hermaphrodite in the Belgian thriller Mascara. You could cruise the low-rent Film Market and see ads for such films as Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Space Sluts in the Slammer and Surf Nazis Must Die. You could catch Jean...
Like Anders, I do not wish to condemn allmembers of the disciplines of Social or PoliticalScience. But if many people in those fields putout defective works like those of Huntington, thisdoes not make those works any better