Word: discreditment
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...this world. While this second section is not so successful nor so concise as the first, it is more ambitious. Kolakowski is trying to be a Marxist Kierkegaard, even to the extent of simulating the same use of irony by impersonation of a point of view he means to discredit. But Kolakowski is not ventriloquist enough. The false perspective does not convince, and so the correct one stands out too visibly between the lines. Consequently the book stumbles onto a shriller and more orthodox note than the author may have intended...
They talked about McGovern in order to discredit him, and they talk about their kids in order to convince themselves that they haven't lost touch. They pigeonhole the headlines to fit their peace loving visions. McGovern or radical student revolt threatened the life styles they needed so badly, to protect--so they blocked the real issues from their field of vision. But they could like, hesitantly, over iced lemonade after tennis, Last Tango in Paris. They only like, you see, what lets them feel "with it" without asking them to change too much. They could watch the movie...
From overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic comments, you chose to excerpt out of context a quote critical of China. I wish there weren't such eagerness to discredit this extraordinary country...
Strachan, who has been offered limited immunity by the Ervin committee, thus apparently could discredit Haldeman's adamant denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate wiretapping...
Impersonating both hostile reporters and Ziegler himself, John Ehrlichman, Chapin, Dean and Special Presidential Counsel Richard A. Moore alternately badgered Ziegler with expected questions and brainstormed lines of counterattack. Although the transcript does not always identify the speaker, most of the participants in the rehearsal urged that Ziegler discredit the stories as politically motivated. At one point, Chapin-the participant with the most at stake-struck the tone he thought Ziegler should take: "I am not going to dignify desperation politics...