Word: condemnation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Union Theological Seminary, to see Catholic leaders pressing "a point of view . . . which has no sound moral or religious basis, and which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded to know if the Catholic bishops' policy "is binding on Roman Catholic candidates for public office...
...second letter which he has written to the Bulletin to condemn the graffito, Robert L. Buell '19 suggested that Quincy House residents be invited to vote as to whether they wish the mural to remain or to be painted...
...South Africa found an unexpected and outspoken defender in Britain's flamboyant Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who was on a visit to Johannesburg. Monty told reporters he found it "very curious" that the U.S. had voted to condemn apartheid, because "it has much the same racial setup inside its own borders." Warming to a favorite subject, Monty added that the trouble with Americans is that, instead of furnishing "sure leadership" to the West, they go around the world saying, "What good guys we are." Monty also confided that he wanted to examine the racial situation in South Africa...
With some feeling, Kamisar countered that the catchers' tactics may be compared only to an improper legal argument, not to a legitimate one. Furthermore, he said, the "If one can do it" principle can be used to condemn any act whatever...
...have been. You bring out Khrushchev's faults and choose to minimize or ignore the possibility of his sincerity. I am proud, and not afraid, to admire Mr. Khrushchev for what may well be genuine overtures in the direction of peace. I shall trust him. I shall not condemn him and slap him when he puts forth his hand in friendship...