Word: reproofs
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Capitalist Shangri-La. Bitter over high taxes, Government interference, the scorn of intellectuals and the reproof of religious leaders, the really tough-minded tycoons gradually withdraw from society to a hideout in the mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers...
...life. If there's hard work to be done and I get out of it, I feel extremely guilty. That's the attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous personality whose bolts of reproof struck Jim regularly. Recalls his senior-year roommate: "Jim had read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he decided Christianity was a lot of hooey. He thought he should enlighten Father Sill, and went over to see him in his study. I remember I was downstairs, and suddenly I heard Father Sill...
...Guard Senators are genuinely fond of Dwight Eisenhower as a fine fellow. They were even willing to go along with the thing called Modern Republicanism when Ike first used the term. But they were awaiting an opening-and they got it when George Humphrey, without any hint of reproof from the President, called into question not only the budget and its programs but, in effect, Ike's leadership...
...Administrator of the U.S. and British occupation zones. When Allied officers, not so ardent as he for Marktwirtschaft (free enterprise economy), refused to let him end rationing and price control, Erhard slipped into his office one Sunday morning and issued the decree. U.S. General Lucius Clay administered a solemn reproof: "Herr Erhard, my advisers tell me this is a terrible mistake." Replied Erhard: "General Clay, pay no attention. My advisers tell me the same thing...
...turned to the priesthood. As the abbé of the little village of Uruffe in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, he became a dynamo of public service, always busily organizing youth groups, a theatrical society, football team and other worthwhile projects. On Sundays, his sermons crackled with reproof of parishioners less disposed to such constant activity, but even the reproved agreed that handsome, young Abbé Desnoyers was a godsend to the flock...