Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stereotype for evangelists cannot be ascribed to this man. His sincerity and consecration are beyond reproach...
...Admiral Lajaro Burgos foiled Paulino by flying off to Spain and tattling to the dictator. On Trujillo's return, El Caribe concluded lyrically, "the sword of the Biblical angel flashed over the stupid head [of Paulino], casting him out of paradise and into reproach...
...Company. Modern imperialism reached its height in Europe's golden 19th century, when Kipling wrote The White Man's Burden and Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes laid his hand on the map of Africa and predicted: "All British." In the 20th century, imperialism has become a word of reproach...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...
Despite the extreme emotional reactions to Wendell Furry's latest testimony, the issue is not one of absolute shadings. If one judged Furry on completely moral grounds, his appeal to conscience may seem above reproach. On purely practical grounds, he may not have accomplished very much. We have tried to evaluate the testimony on both its personal courage and practical consequences. Conscience does not exist in a vacuum, and, at times, an individual's noblest acts are, in the end, harmful to the principles he wants to defend. This second editorial is an attempt to further clarify a complicated distinction...