Word: culpa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense against the ogres of absolutism who think that their political faith gives them power over the minds and bodies of other men. Koestler brought a better mind to the subject; he began by renouncing the inquisitor within himself. Fast's book is no more than a tua culpa. In the person of Alvero, he seems to be trying to recover in the 15th century the innocence he lost in the 20th...
...writers who arose out of the unemployed struggles led by the Communist Party?" It was a good question, for by then Fast himself was the only good name left to dress up the Communist Party's sleazy cultural storefront. (Since then, Fast himself has repented, issued his mea culpa...
...Culpa. Toynbee was stung by the criticisms, perhaps even shaken. The proof lies in Toynbee's Reconsiderations, a massive overhauling of his previous positions, which is at the same time an astonishing admission of error. At the same time, The Intent of Toynbee's History provides a broad platform for nine of his keenest critics to have a fresh go at an already well-clobbered classic. On the whole, the critical lash falls with less severity than formerly. It is true that Professor David M. Robinson, an expert on Toynbee's favorite "Hellenic" world, hardly tries...
Toynbee is harder on himself. Reconsiderations reads in places like a humble mea culpa. He confesses to intellectual rashness, to "opaque" induction rather than use of logic, to having carried "analogy to excessive lengths . . . 'Going too far' is a standing temptation for me." But for relying on mythology as well as science, he accepts, wisely, no blame, since mythology has given him many of the insights that make his History a continuously startling experience. So long as science and mythology are used as "a carriage-and-pair and not a one-horse shay," he sees no need...
...obvious reference to the conflict-of-interest troubles of a Ford competitor, Chrysler (see following story). To prevent recurrences, said Ford, top corporate executives must take full responsibility for setting up high ethical standards and strict policies and policing "with the utmost thoroughness and intensity." With a mea culpa, as a General Electric director, he also suggested that outside directors should make it their business "to be aware of the pertinent codes and policies of the companies on whose boards they sit." If the companies themselves fail to keep their own houses in order, "the house-cleaning job certainly will...