Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piety and Expedience. In this lively collection. Valentine, formerly president of the University of Rochester, offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that...
Dallas in particular, Texas in general, and the U.S. as a whole was in an agony of self-reproach. Somehow the conflicts of political and sociological difference, which are always bitter and are historically endowed with passion, had been translated into something unique to this day and age-a climate in which, and only in which, the assassination of President Kennedy could have occurred...
...once did. "At some point, now impossible to define," he reflects, "his face had ceased to inspire confidence of the right sort, even in bars." With no prospects George hangs on, in present-day London, a kind of frayed cuff whose very existence is a reproach to the bustling stuffed-shirt society he inhabits...
...curate of St. Clement's, Schinderhook, N.Y., a beautiful young man of stupefying idiocy whom everyone calls "Sonny," is visited by the stigmata-the five wounds of Christ. He bleeds in reproach to the worldly and the clever, it is supposed. But any serious social or theological point is hopelessly compromised by Leary's relentless facetiousness, extracting what fun is available in copes, albs, chasubles, incense and the osseous relics of saints with humorous names. The pity is that Leary has evident talent and high spirits; if he could be persuaded to stay away from church...
...knowledge on the part of admissions officers that "we could be wrong" prevents the admissions process from becoming simply a giant lottery; the letters of reproach remind the College that it is dealing not with lists of activities and ranks-in-class, but with the feelings and futures of individuals...