Word: reproach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karl, look," Anne gives her husband a soothing reproach. She seems to have heard this before. "If they give you a review that's two and a half columns, they take it seriously. Whether they disagree with you or not is another thing...
...from her family as a result of her illness. In Theresa's withdrawal from her family, her only connection with people aside from her rigidly structured parochial school, Rossner lays the groundwork for Theresa's passivity toward all the men in her life. Her reaction to the constant unspoken reproach, the pity, is to bury her anxiety over her deformity as deeply inside her as possible. But it preoccupies her constantly...
...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...
Drifting without an identity of her own, Tolstoy fell prey to the nemesis of sexist marriage. The holy imperative to devote one's soul to another human being whose primary devotion is to work brought possessiveness, analysis, self-reproach and despair. As if this weren't enough, Tolstoy's perceptiveness forced her to see the vicious source of the entire fiasco--woman's exclusion from meaningful work...
...control and disarmament must be courageous and wise. The members of that leadership must be able to exercise their own independent judgment and not let others intimidate them. Who, in our own country, are the "others" who can intimidate the leadership? They are the military. I don't reproach the military for that-they're only doing their job. The military is made up of men who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their motherland. However, leaders must be careful not to look at the world through the eyeglasses of the military. Otherwise...