Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student from Ceylon wanted to know about "what goes on in the month of torture" undergone by captured Viet Cong guerrillas. Said Conlon: "American interrogations in Viet Nam-and I have participated-do not include torture . . . But if you want examples of torture, why do you never condemn the well-documented tortures carried out by the Communists...
...pragmatic reasons add up to the notion that the U.S. either cannot win or need not win in order to safeguard its interests. The moral objections are often weakened by the fact that, while the critics condemn the use of force against North Viet Nam, they either condone or ignore it in other situations-such as Sukarno's guerrilla war against Malaysia, Red China's conquest of Tibet or, most important, the Viet Cong's own terror against South Vietnamese peasants...
...King appeared before the Massachusetts legislature and said: "For one who has been banished from the seats of government and jailed so many times for attempting to petition legislatures and councils. I can assure you this is a momentous occasion." He had, he said, "come to Massachusetts not to condemn but to encourage. It is from these shores that a new nation, conceived in liberty, was born, and it must be from these halls that liberty must be preserved." He attacked as a "myth" the argument that race-relations problems cannot be solved with legislation. "Well, it may be true...
...reveal this lack of perspective when you start pleturing virtue in rags and vice "impeccably dressed." When you pass moral judgment on that famous old institution, drunken college students. When you are outraged that anyone might say "Bomb Hanoi," whether serious or not. When you condemn a protest for being, as one female SDS student said, "not according to procedure...
...endomorphic. Hence I am extroverted and like to be surrounded by people, comfort, food. People who condemn over-eaters are ectomorphic, skinny nervous types, who can neither digest nor enjoy food...