Word: reproaching
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Hence, each side must meet the other halfway, casting aside any thought of recrimination. It is easy for the U.S. to resent its Western European allies for their uncertainties, to reproach them for not sharing its own view of the future of the Western world, to ask them to harmonize their essential interests with its trade policy. That is always easy, sometimes justified, but in any case insufficient. Such complaints seem all the more futile in that they place Western European countries in a position to ask the U.S. to clarify its own standpoint...
Even in Poland, some Solidarity sympathizers have expressed doubts about the wisdom of the union's course. Sitting in a comfortable country house near Warsaw, a group of affluent Polish farmers last week discussed the union's fate with a mixture of pity and reproach. "We are still for Solidarity," said one man, "but unfortunately they should have had more patience." His wife agreed: "It was too much, too fast...
Garrison Keillor is the somewhat moonstruck and lately much celebrated rustic whimsyfier whose monologues from Lake Woebegon, Minn., embellish Public Radio's Saturday evening country-music broadcasts. The first response of an uninitiated listener is likely to be, "That fellow is being funny," and the second, uttered with reproach, "No, that fellow is being serious...
...though, of course, some were more alike than others." Dirk Dolfin, a one-man Dutch conglomerate with wavy blond hair and dazzling teeth, possesses the two essentials of a De Vries hero: galloping lust and crawling remorse. He is as briskly efficient at lovemaking as he is at self-reproach. After a romp among the paper clips, Dirk's afterplay consists of pillow talk about eternal damnation. Then, subsequent to monologues on, say, the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the old Dutch cleanser marches his partner to the tub and scours her flesh with the same manic energy normally devoted...
Much of what Moses did in those early years was beyond reproach. After a stint at the Bureau of Municipal Research--numbers and documentation were always a Progressive passion--he began to work for New York Governor Al Smith. During the early years, he supervised the creation of Jones Beach, the most remarkable public beach in the world, full of the amenities once accessible only to the rich. But Moses did it his way, without interference from the tainted politicians. This time, in Jones Beach, Moses' work was almost indisputably good for all, but that would change, as his power...