Word: discreditment
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There are doubtless profound cultural reasons for such anger: the aggressive self-regard of the era now perhaps passing, the centrifugal individualism, the loss of authority, the sense of alienation from "the System," a precipitous disenchantment that tended to discredit all rules, including those of social behavior. It is possible that the price of a certain amount of personal liberty is excess and mess, all the frictions and bad smells generated by social change and people exercising their constitutional rights. Jefferson had an idea that democracy should be genteel, but it did not work out that way. And today, there...
...will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern and their ideas are not invalid. The apostasy of the individual does not discredit the cause...
...reads a poem by Berahini which has the words "shit" and "fuck" in it. He says he's sorry to say such words to the crowd, and says that Beranhini's use of those words proves he is a CIA agent trying to discredit the people's movement in Iran by using dirty language. That was two years...
...Barham was a fraud. No such luck. "This man has more gifts than you have ever seen," says Kübler-Ross. "He is probably the greatest healer that this country has." The current furor does not appear to disturb her. Says she: "Many attempts have been made to discredit us. To respond to them would be like casting pearls to swine...
...cities and towns in 35 states last week, hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of demonstrators joined in the biggest protest ever against what the country is targeting as "Big Oil." They voiced fears of a winter of low temperatures and high fuel costs, passed out "Big Oil Discredit Cards" and waved banners declaring, "I don't want to freeze in the dark." For most, the principal peeve was not gasoline prices or petroleum industry profits but the 60% rise in the cost of heating oil in the past 2½ years...