Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...