Word: discreditment
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...went on to call the faction's activities "an attempt by the Establishment to discredit...
...comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of Mary Jo Kopechne's death has been made is alarming. That Kennedy is permitted to avoid investigation via a guilty plea to a relatively minor offense and then to generate sympathy with unverified emotional answers to his own selected questions is a discredit to this nation's legal and political systems...
...short, it does no discredit to Mr. Gilligan to recognize that the man who defeated him was and is an outstanding liberal and intellectual-- who happens to be a Republican. Indeed. Mr. Geoghegan should be glad that his next-door neighbor was defeated by a better man. Terry A. Barnett '67 2L Saxbe Research Director President, Ripon Society
...They remain the victims of a "false consciousness" created by the mass media of capitalist monopoly. The first task of students, however, is to radicalize their own fellow students and thus increase the ranks of the vanguard. The use of militant action against the established University authorities serves to discredit that authority and to radicalize the students...
That accolade is William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, which attacks Styron for portraying Turner as a sensitive, hesitant, psychologically troubled leader instead of as a ruthless revolutionary. The responding writers make a number of objections on historical grounds and try to discredit the sociology of Stanley Elkins, whose work Styron called "enormously important" and which influenced Styron called "enormously important" and which influenced Styron's portrait of plantation slaves. In part, Elkins compared black's reaction to the authoritarian system of slavery to Jews' reaction to German concentration camps...