Word: reproacheing
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...third of today's West Germans were even teen-agers before World War II. Those born after the war show little interest in the Nazi era and, naturally, accept no responsibility for it. Those between 30 and 50, says Historian Joachim Fest, are "the generation of self-reproach." Many of them insist that Hitler accomplished some good-reviving the economy, building national self-esteem and cracking class barriers-but they concede that his achievements were more than canceled out by the demonic evils of Nazism. But many of those over 50, who remember the humiliation after World...
...service from the second chapter of Nehemiah: "Then I said unto them, ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach...
Yovicsin's job is to lure various organizations to Suffolk Downs and to persuade them to entertain friends and visitors there. Unless one frowns on business, and I doubt that Harvard officials do, this position is certainly above reproach. But our football coach will probably come in contact with some gamblers, and perhaps Harvard fears that in a moment of weakness he will fall prey to their evil instincts...
...number of Russian writers have vilified Kuznetsov-most of them party hacks. Last week a voice was raised in the Soviet Union which, for the first time, had the ring of legitimate reproach. Andrei Amalric, 31, is no hack, but one of Russia's most promising young writers. In an open letter to Kuznetsov, Amalric criticized his fellow writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal...
...subjected me, and other Soviet citizens, to malicious ideological brainwashing. I again refused, although they then threatened me with criminal proceedings. In 1965, I refused outright to talk with them, which cost me exile in Siberia. That is why I think I have the personal right to reproach...