Word: discreditment
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Dirty Linen. But attitudes toward extramarital sex have changed, and the depths to which lawyers will go to discredit an opponent's client have become increasingly distasteful. Most important of all has been the growing obviousness of the inequities that were being wrought. Says New York Judge Samuel Hofstadter: "Many deserving women get too little, and others less deserving get too much." To him, guilt is a clearly outmoded concept in divorce. Besides, he points out, "in probably 90% of all cases, neither spouse is at fault, or both may be to some degree...
...first taste of hostility came when he wrote an unfavorable Commentary review of The Adventures of Angle March, the 1953 novel by Family Favorite Saul Bellow. According to Podhoretz, Bellow's friends were apparently persuaded that the review was part of a subtle plot to discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most...
...most deleterious effects of the Act will be informal. The Attorney General already maintains a list of "subversive groups" used in the selection of Government employees. Through the proceedings of the SACB, this list will probably be publicized and lead to informal pressures against members. The SACB could easily discredit anti-war and black militant groups just by connecting their names with communism in the public mind. In addition, the mere passage of an anti-subversive act will further alienate liberals and radicals already disenchanted with the Government because...
...days from now, these soldiers will probably be as aghast as anyone at what they've done." In the first U.S. war-crimes trial to come out of Viet Nam, two G.I.s involved in the mutilations have now been found guilty by a special court-martial of "bringing discredit upon the armed forces...
Seeing anti-war demonstrations form Vietnam, Sloan was afraid the Liberals were going to discredit themselves and ruin any chance of progressive domestic legislation. But even more disturbing was the feeling that the people who were protesting the war were "people I admired and respected," he says...