Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money shows are subtler. With huge audiences at stake, they go to extremes to appear beyond reproach. They know that they cannot afford to risk collusion with contestants. Yet, estimates one veteran of such shows, "you have 70% or 80% control of what happens." The technique is simple: "To keep a contestant winning, all you have to do is figure out how not to hit a question he doesn't know. That's the basis of all quiz shows." The producers hand-pick their contestants for personality, occupation and geographical spread as well as specialized knowledge, then...
...Messiahs. Scholars doubt whether the Righteous Teacher will ever be specifically identified. The important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return of the Teacher...
...breeds of Roommate vary even as broadly as canine types. All, however, never fail to snicker when they catch their comrade at his books, and equally reproach him when he is neglecting them. The Roommate's quality of mercy is often strained...
...directed the original production, molded the four performances into a superbly balanced whole, and accomplished his job with imagination and no little daring. The merits of Samuel Beckett's contribution to the evening may be debated, but the work of these five men stands far above the possibility of reproach...
...FOOTNOTE*-A typically cumbersome Marxist phrase, "great nation chauvinism" is also used by Peking to reproach Moscow's heavy-handed conduct in Hungary and Poland...