Word: meas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After five weeks of uncharacteristic silence, Fidel Castro appeared to his people last week bearing bad news and mea culpas...
...progressive writers who arose out of the unemployed struggles led by the Communist Party?" It was a good question, for by then Fast himself was the only good name left to dress up the Communist Party's sleazy cultural storefront. (Since then, Fast himself has repented, issued his mea culpa...
...seems to hear nothing but breast beating mea culpas, and what a bunch of fools you all are. You have the courage and ability to lead the world. In heaven's name, get on with...
Toynbee is harder on himself. Reconsiderations reads in places like a humble mea culpa. He confesses to intellectual rashness, to "opaque" induction rather than use of logic, to having carried "analogy to excessive lengths . . . 'Going too far' is a standing temptation for me." But for relying on mythology as well as science, he accepts, wisely, no blame, since mythology has given him many of the insights that make his History a continuously startling experience. So long as science and mythology are used as "a carriage-and-pair and not a one-horse shay," he sees no need...
...other," in obvious reference to the conflict-of-interest troubles of a Ford competitor, Chrysler (see following story). To prevent recurrences, said Ford, top corporate executives must take full responsibility for setting up high ethical standards and strict policies and policing "with the utmost thoroughness and intensity." With a mea culpa, as a General Electric director, he also suggested that outside directors should make it their business "to be aware of the pertinent codes and policies of the companies on whose boards they sit." If the companies themselves fail to keep their own houses in order, "the house-cleaning...