Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacks a central mind to determine the criteria of eligibility for aid and to persuade the Congress of the value of experiment. There is some thought of appointing Mr. Sargent Shriver, a splendid Peace Corps Director whose designation by the President might be all that is needed to discredit the entire Kennedy family. Only one man seems to have all the necessary virtues: Mr. Eugene Black, who just retired from the World Bank. Mr. Black can do more than run a program superbly; he can command the respect of Capitol Hill and the affection of the agency staff...
...intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
...this would be rather silly if it did not discredit serious experimental drama. Some of the work of Eugene Ionesco and Edward Albee will almost certainly become established in the repertory of genuine comedy. Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," for example, is a thoroughly adept treatment of the theme Ellis Andrews has toyed with in "The Two-Headed Baby." The Ionesco work succeeds because it was written by a good writer; the Ellis Andrews "experiment" fails miserably because it was written by a bad writer. So we come to the essential fact: good drama is simply good writing, whether...
...dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner, had it all figured out: "They're doing it because they're sore...
Bidwell partisans suggested that the leak was part of a concerted Administration drive to discredit Wall Street, and Bidwell himself in a bitter statement implied that the Government had deliberately waited until he became chairman of the Exchange to prosecute...