Word: reproachfulness
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...they left their ancestors and fellow survivors with a nightmarish and burdensome legacy--guilt. However irrational the assumption, many Jews who emerged from the death camps cannot help wondering just how they managed to survive. The unfortunate result is a generation of survivors so immersed in self-reproach and misery that they torture themselves and their loved ones...
...admitted freely its burden of guilt, a courageous and unique historical event. Despite the lengthy list of Arab violations of human rights, of massacres against their own people, of the uprooting of their own citizens as well as Israelis, we have yet to hear one word of self-reproach. Is this how Mr. Bisharat understands justice? Rona G. Shapiro '83-3 Chair, H-R Zionist Alliance
Proponents of fundamentalist schools have forgotten one of the basic teachings of the Bible, which is that the Christian is to respect and obey the government. In taking an arrogant, self-righteous position, the supporters of Christian schools not only reproach the Bible, but insult those who work in the public schools. The public system does work, but it works better when we stay to build rather than when we desert to experiment...
WHEN ISRAEL was created in 1948, its founding fathers were concerned that their new country would eventually become a nation state like all others. To them, Israel had to remain on a moral pedestal, almost above reproach, in a constant search for perfection. It was an impossible dream, but one that has lasted until today. Now though, Israel with its political scandals, militarism and petty bickering, is showing signs of being no more of an ideal nation than any other democracy. Realistically, such an evolution was to be expected...
...about the time that news of the White House deliberations appeared in the American press, the Japanese government warned its chip manufacturers to make sure that their marketing practices in the U.S. were beyond reproach. Says Atsuyoshi Ouchi, senior executive vice president of Nippon Electric: "We were told that we had to be particularly careful about the possibility of being slapped with charges of dumping...