Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stern moralists who condemn Restoration comedy as merely vulgar should go and see the Brattle Theatre's production of Wycherley's "The Country Wife." They will not think the acted play less bawdy than the published play; but they might learn, in the two and a half hours of an excellent play excellently produced, that "The Country Wife" is more than merely crude...
...Among those designated by the law of the church as unworthy of ecclesiastical burial are all public and evident sinners. But the church decrees that each case be studied carefully for the slightest circumstance which can be interpreted in favor of the sinner. To condemn this merciful outlook is to misunderstand the entire gospel of Christ. With the hatred of the Lord Jesus Himself the church hates sin, but with His own compassion she stands, as long as there is the slightest foothold, between the sinner and the terrible consequences of his sin. If this means that she will...
...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...
...hardy little group of Republicans in the Senate. But there were other Republicans who were not so happy at the idea. Bipartisanship, snapped Ohio's Robert Taft, "is not accomplished by the appointment of an individual Republican . . . Bipartisanship is being used by Mr. Truman as a slogan to condemn any Republican who disagrees with Mr. Truman's unilateral foreign policy, secretly initiated and put into effect without any real consultation with Congress...
...Navy considers a man loyal if he acts in the best interests of the Navy and the nation. The Navy's oath, and the government's entire loyalty program, is based on the idea that association with a "subversive" group works against these interests. But it is ridiculous to condemn a man who may be trying to find out first-hand what "subversive" groups are doing, to rule him out as disloyal, for example, because he is interested in sizing up the opposition...