Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Kennan after he bemoaned the irresponsibility and nihilism of youth had the same effect. Abandoning rhetoric and argument, Hellman recalled talking with Kennan in a European cafe decades before. "We've had so many common experiences," she said. "How come we feel so differently about youth?" The reproach was simple, emotional and electric...
Many a baby is born with strawberry or port-wine patches on his face, and although these disfiguring birthmarks have given rise to a lot of old wives' tales and maternal self-reproach, most have no medical significance. An exception is the massive port-wine stain with which Michael Wood was born nearly five years ago. The huge birthmark extended from around the right eye down the side of his face to the neck...
...political philosopher] cannot dismiss too lightly the reproach of hard-headed politicians, that political theory has nothing whatever to do with political practice. Political theory, he must maintain, tries to explain what the practical politician is doing. It is not abstract, remote, or impractical...
...reproach our white brothers who so indulge themselves now, in vicarious violence, I do not believe we are justified, least of all in memory of Martin Luther King, in reproaching the black man for his tactics and advising him on his strategy...
Among those polled 94 per cent--478 students--disapproved of U.S. policy in Vietnam while only 6 per cent--31 students endorsed LBJ's policy. The classic reproach to this kind of statistic is that many of the students who disapprove of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam might do so on the grounds that the military effort should be increased. Not so. The poll reveals that only 1 per cent--six students--felt that "the military effort should be increased." The other 99 per cent are split as follows: 19 per cent--89 students--feel that "the military effort should...