Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Otherwise, it was a slow, quiet summer. For weeks, the top non-Sox story was the ongoing plagiarism scandal involving Boston University dean Joachim Maitre, whose commencement speech included 15 paragraphs of a local film critic's essay about declining societal standards. Big deal...
...drastic change in the cultural weather. The masculine ideal reflected in the Hollywood mirror had been basically suave and gentlemanly. Brando, who grew up middle class, Midwestern and Wasp, radiated pure working-class alienation -- an inarticulate promise of danger, sex and social abrasion. Which is why, as TIME film critic Richard Schickel tells us in BRANDO: A LIFE IN OUR TIMES (Atheneum; $21.95), he was a mythic presence for all the young urban professionals of the '50s. Rude but sensitive, rough but anguished, Brando was their version of pastoral -- a noble-savage counterpoint to the corporate rat race. The myth...
...doesn't." Cuomo later backtracked and defended Jeffries' "freedom to abuse ((freedom))." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal was not ambivalent. He placed Jeffries in the dreary international tribe of bigots -- Hindus paranoid about Muslims, white South Africans who proclaim black inferiority, Jew baiters everywhere. In the Washington Post, critic Jonathan Yardley wrote, "Talk such as Jeffries engaged in at Albany has nothing to do with 'ideas' -- it's bigotry, pure and simple...
...Quayle, it might be said, put his ironies in the fire when he took on the entire legal profession in his A.B.A. speech. What is curious about this newly minted legal critic is not that the Vice President is a lawyer by training but that hitherto he has always been such an indifferent...
...lawyer Linda Lipsen says, "You can't stand Corporate America before a blackboard and have them write 100 times: 'I will not put issues of greed over issues of public safety.' " The cozy pattern of self-regulation among some professional groups, like doctors, only compounds the litigation problem. Legal critic Charles Peters, the editor of the Washington Monthly, argues that this means "there is no effective discipline for misconduct by a physician other than the malpractice suit...