Word: reproaching
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Wojtyla wrote last year that Jesus Christ is "a reproach to the affluent consumer society ... The great poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism?all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist...
...Smoke had a few hits too many: it vegges out and should be led, without severe reproach, to the nearest bed where it can lie peacefully, bothering no one. If you really want to spend eight bucks and have a merry old time laughing about all those funny situations that you get into when you smoke dope, then buy yourself a few joints and have fun without ever leaving your room. Up in Smoke got burned out before it even got started...
What I am is an opponent of racism in any shape or form, and it is this that I think the radical feminists have moved into. My reproach (or plea for compassion) is directed specifically and only at those women who consider themselves women first, and human beings second...
...reported to be under house arrest in the presidential residence. Party officials said Tito had approved the investigation of her lobbying, and, obviously, he would decide on her punishment. That might be mild or firm. As one Yugoslav editor commented last week, "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach. At least that's how Caesar feels...
...awesome a task as Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 did during his 13 years in office. He entered the White House with the country writhing in the throes of a devastating economic depression and left it with the world emerging from global warfare of unprecedented scale. Although historical critics may reproach him for some of his methods and motives, few find fault with the quality of his leadership during those difficult years. Like other great presidents, Roosevelt rose to the challenge of overwhelming events and refused to be overwhelmed by them. The play FDR chronicles those events, but unfortunately it does...