Word: meas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This eager mea culpa mood pervaded the entire congress which last week in Milan assembled almost 3,000 Communist delegates from eleven nations. Technically, it was the Sixth National Congress of the Italian Communist Party, but influential guests came from Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Britain and Uruguay...
...Palestine Government imposed military rule for the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and its suburb of Ramat Gan; nearby Petah Tiqva, the oldest modern Jewish community in Palestine; Benet Beraq and numerous communal settlements in the area and the Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem, where 15,000 Jew reside...
...cannot sympathize with all the breast-beating and crying of mea culpa over our use of the atomic bomb. Granted that it is a weapon sufficiently terrible to make the abolition of war advisable, is its use one whit worse than the piecemeal destruction of cities and civilian centers by bombing and fire raids...
Clifton Fadiman is a striking proof that a regular reviewer need not necessarily degenerate into a facile purveyor of snap judgments and hopeful guesses. He was the first--and, I think, the only-- reviewer to offer an annual mea culpa to his readers; and while he explains his introduction of this custom rather cynically in terms of space-filling rather than conscientiousness, his reader may reserve judgment...
Perversely Anglophile as ever, Ouseley-Gogarty leaves De Valera's Ireland to visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side...