Word: discreditation
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Curiously enough, the first people to agree with Coles, at least in one sense, are the very psychiatrists he is seeking to discredit. Mack and Beardsice go to pains in discussing their work, to stress it inherent limitations and the potential for "researcher bias;" they point out in the Yale journal: "The questionnaire format did not allow definite answers to many of the questions to which one would want to have answers, such as the relative importance of this issue for young people in comparision with other social and technological problems, or the variation in thinking among young people from...
...proselytizing is surely so unethical as to be un-American," he wrote last week. Safire also fumed about the "Fundamentalist intolerance" he found at the Dallas convention, and declared that "no President . . .has done more to marshal the political clout of these evangelicals than Ronald Reagan-to his historic discredit." William F. Buckley Jr., however, in a column last week, defended the President. Wrote Buckley: "Reagan is certainly attempting to attract the vote of those who believe they are being unfairly persecuted by the secularists, and why shouldn...
...President Konstantin Chernenko stepped up the war of words with the U.S., telling young Soviet servicemen at a Kremlin ceremony that they had to be prepared to deal with "political forces that are deaf to good will and the arguments of reason." The Kremlin even launched a campaign to discredit the Normandy invasion, outrageously contending that it had been botched, while the war was actually won on the Eastern front. Pravda accused Reagan personally of going to the anniversary ceremonies "to exploit the glory of the dead...
Much depends on how Jackson handles himself in the weeks ahead. If he is intemperate in his public utterances, if he locks himself into unrealistic demands, he could wound the Democratic nominee, discredit himself and further divide the races. But if he reaches a rapprochement with the party's candidate, then campaigns for him in a temperate and intelligent way, Jackson could greatly enlarge the role of blacks in national politics. In that way, Jesse Jackson's candidacy could turn out to be a powerful and positive force, a reminder of the diversity and promise of American politics...
...Council voted for the option which, in its opinion, was best and fairest for the undergraduate community: that we achieve consistency for all organizations at the expense of a few is unfortunate but inevitable. I hardly think that the members who voted against suspending the rule brought any discredit upon themselves or the Council by doing...