Word: copouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death that cries out to be interpreted as either an accidental murder or a murderous accident. Playing existential detective, Kundera shows how all the major characters are implicated. But despite some amusing farcical turns, the verdict is heavily weighted toward a formulation that amounts to a facile existential copout: we are all murderers...
Senator Proxmire immediately labeled the White House plan "a bureaucratic copout" and declared his intention to press ahead with his own bill. In reality, both approaches have grave flaws. As Richardson pointed out, Proxmire's legislation is probably unenforceable. The White House approach, on the other hand, suffers the weakness of expecting companies to report their own misdeeds...
...Sizemore critic on the board, Raymond Kemp, a white Roman Catholic priest: "She is angry, mad, feverish about the education of blacks. She can describe the education needs of black children to a T. But she is incapable of managing resources." Sizemore herself calls the mismanagement issue a "copout" and says that the board has interfered with her job. "The decisions are made by the board and administered by the board...
This year the trustees decided to forgo further trouble. They turned their power of final approval or disapproval of the awards over to Columbia President William J. McGill. It was an unnecessary copout. Apparently sensitive to past criticism, the 14 journalists and publishers on the Pulitzer board seemed to go out of their way to overlook a President's resignation, the CIA revelations, gathering disaster in Indochina and complex Middle East diplomacy in an effort to find relatively noncontroversial subjects for their awards...
...This church doesn't take religion seriously enough," complains Bob Merkle, the director of a counseling service who works with the church. "To fit in around here you have to be compulsively cheerful." The erudite Theology Today has been debating whether Schuller's message is a cultural copout...