Word: obloquy
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LONDON. Oscar Wilde, who ended his life in obloquy, will be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey's memorial window near Poets' Corner next week. The Valentine's Day unveiling of a diamond-shape glass plaque inscribed with his name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord...
...countenance dictatorship. To the rest of the world he was the public face of perestroika who played a pivotal role in ending the cold war. So it is a bit strange to see Eduard Shevardnadze staging a comeback in the one place where his reputation has been dogged by obloquy: his native Georgia...
...this respect the assassination theorists who seem most prescient, or at least realistic, are the odd couple of Malcolm X and L.B.J. It was Malcolm who provoked a storm of obloquy in the aftermath of the Dallas shooting when he said J.F.K.'s killing was "a case of the chickens coming home to roost." And it was L.B.J. who 10 years later gave a kind of gritty geopolitical substance to Malcolm's metaphor when he told an ex-aide that J.F.K. was "running a damned Murder Incorporated in the Caribbean" -- all those CIA assassination plots -- and that he believed...
...example of common reactions to Bill Laimbeer should illustrate what I mean. Each time Laimbeer enters Boston Garden (or other hostile arenas) he is invariable greeted with a spattering of signs and a din of obloquy all either literally saying or having the general gist of "Bill Laimbeer stinks." Of course, no fan means by this that Bill Laimbeer needs stronger deodorant. They all are insulting his basketball skills in an attempt to insult him personally...
Generally, either nations have been unwilling to impose sanctions severe enough to cripple the economy of an offending country, or the restrictions have been widely evaded. The moral obloquy that proved so galling to white South Africans means nothing to dictators such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Deng Xiaoping of China, who are determined to maintain their power and to hell with world opinion. Some analysts suspect that even in South Africa, sanctions that devastated rather than only damaged the economy might have produced a laager backlash. For once, the U.S. and other nations imposed sanctions just strict enough...