Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersay, where vivisection is outlawed, there are no medical schools. A similar threat to medical research exists in this Commonwealth. No one will condemn the Friendship of a Boy for his Dog. But it must be kept clear that this has little to do with the present campaign. Medical research is facing quiet strangulation. It is research which can easily balance a human life saved for every animal killed...
some people argue that the same criteria of aggression must be applied to a large country, China, as to a small country, North Korea, and that failure to condemn the Chinese would be an abandonment by the U.N. of the moral position it assumed in defending Korea. However, another goal of the world organization is the preservation of peace, and certainly not all the possibilities of a peaceful, honorable settlement of Asiatic problems have been exhausted...
...display in London. A newly enlisted naval aviation cadet wrote that the reasoning in the story had "affirmed and broadened" his own convictions. Praise for the story was almost universal, with a predictable exception: the West Coast Communist newspaper, the People's World, took two columns to condemn our "brutal killer...
...reading the drab little close-up of "real" life by someone signing himself "Enoch Arnold Bennett" could possibly see The Old Wives' Tale ahead. Max Beerbohm's A Defence of Cosmetics would seem to condemn its youthful author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best...
...gambling trade": in its "present inflated condition [it] undoubtedly does much harm . . . Let it rectify this or, if that is unlikely to happen, let the state impose wise restrictions, and there will be no need to condemn the trade out of hand...