Word: chide
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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When liberals chide him for joining a conservative Republican Administration, he retorts that too many of them have lost their way in contemporary America. They have, he believes, substituted moral fervor for political analysis. Many have "a frenzied attachment to the apocalypse," he says. "They see society in ahistorical terms: what is not altogether acceptable is altogether unacceptable; gradations are ignored and incremental movements are scorned." Many contemporary liberals, he says, have become arrogant and isolated from the rest of society because of their affluence. Today's liberal is "a well-educated middle-class person with an immense feeling...