Word: reproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Townsend is the most moderate among the third generation of vote-seeking Kennedys. Her initiatives on the social front are infused with moral reproof. Break the Cycle, for example, is an antidrug effort that requires offenders on parole or probation--those most likely to go back to a life of crime--to take frequent drug tests and face harsh and escalating penalties if they fail. "Her landmark work on crime, community service and character education serves as a national model for New Democrats," says Al From, president of the Democratic Leadership Council...
That judgment, based on Virginia legal precedent and accompanied by the judge's personal reproof, turned Sharon and April into national symbols. Conservatives hailed the judge's ruling as a vindication of crusades against legitimizing homosexuality. Liberals denounced it as prejudice masquerading as jurisprudence. The case intensified heated questions resulting from the public emergence of homosexuals in American society: Are they just another oppressed minority, making the same arduous climb that faced so many other groups? Or are they morally and socially different? Is there -- and should there be -- a way to give homosexuals legal equality without compelling heterosexuals...
...surest way for a Western journalist to end an interview with a Soviet official was to ask about factionalism in the Kremlin, shortages in the stores or rumors of unrest somewhere in the south. The official's face, hardly radiant to begin with, would become a mask of reproof that emitted, like a recorded announcement, a curt lecture on the inadmissibility of slander against the U.S.S.R. and interference in its internal affairs...