Word: reproachers
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Billy Wilder's ingenuity and cleverness are beyond reproach. But he has more, much more; he has virtue. At the end of the movie, after what has seemed to be pure fantasy and games, he manages to include a few scenes in which Tony Curtis, who has all along been playing poor Marilyn for a sucker, discovers suddenly that deep down where it counts he loves her after all, and does the noble thing. These scenes call to mind the "Love Slave" movies in which the hero finally escapes from his immoral torturers and flees to his faithful fiancee...
...people of Congo were incompetent to govern, Kanza argued, "the first reproach must go to those who trained us." The Belgians ruled the Congo for 80 years without educating a single Congolese doctor or engineer. "Only eight years ago," said Kanza, "I was the first to leave Congolese territory to go through higher education." He might have pointed out that the actual casualties are far fewer than the headlines would suggest. Those killed were mostly soldiers from both sides and numbered twelve whites and 79 Congolese...
...civilized have shown that the sav age left in them is anything but noble. In his first novel, the author seeks to restore the old image and picks the Northwest Indians as his noble savages; they prove too pathetic to offer an alternative to civilization, only a mild reproach...
...These activities are, alas, a current practice," sighed France's Armand Berard to the Council. "What country does not find itself implicated? Is the Soviet Union, which today expresses indignation, beyond reproach on this score?" Spying, he added, might be deplorable, but there was no international law against it. Although defeat clearly lay ahead, deadpan Andrei Gromyko stolidly forced a vote on his resolution to declare the flights a "threat to world peace," and, with only Poland in support of him, the Council voted him down...
...grim Lepoglava Prison, Stepinac occupied a cell with an adjoining chapel, got good food and all the books he wanted. Unlike Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Archbishop Stepinac issued no pronouncements against the regime. He sat silent, and in the free world his silence sounded as a cry of reproach. Tito would gladly have been rid of him. Through a U.S. newspaperman he offered him his freedom if he would agree never again to practice his priesthood in Yugoslavia. Replied Stepinac bluntly: "I am completely indifferent concerning any thoughts of my liberation. I know why I suffer...