Word: jeremiad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society is sick. He rejects his psychiatrist's diagnosis of repressions: "I was doing fine when things really were repressive, if they ever were, it's only since they've become, oh, permissive that I've had trouble." In the end, Jake issues a jeremiad against his own treatment and therapy in general; he also has traveled well down the road to misogyny...
...Government's National Endowment for the Humanities: the honor of giving the eighth annual Jefferson lectures, which NEH sponsors, would go to University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils, 68, a world-renowned expert on the role of intellectuals in advanced and developing societies. But Shils chose to compose a jeremiad attacking the Federal Government for interference with higher education. Last week the cries of anguished response stretched all the way back to Washington...
Some will call this a peevish jeremiad. I am quite aware that it is a luxury to feel distress in response to this type of incident. My experience is not equivalent to or representative of the problems facing most blacks in this country; it is almost trivial when thousands upon thousands of blacks are denied the most basic rights and opportunities. But I can and will not deny the particulars of my own life, and the racism which I have described, while a more subtle, less ubiquitous form than most, is only the next level up in the undistinguished hierarchy...
...after Carter's speech at Annapolis, exiled Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered his first major speech in three years. It was an extraordinary jeremiad, and its main target was not the Soviet system, whose evils he has vividly chronicled, but the West, where he has made his new home. At Harvard University's commencement, the 59-year-old Nobel laureate received a standing ovation as he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters. Then, like an Old Testament prophet, he denounced in an hourlong address such evils of modern American society as civic cowardice, immoral legalism, a licentious...
...committed to a New Orleans insane asylum, where he has one room with a view of Lafayette Cemetery. There he tells his story to a friend who has become a Catholic priest. But Lancelot's confession is anything but repentant. It is both a funny and a scarifying jeremiad on the modern...