Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruminating on the fantastic reports that are daily pouring out of Red China, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week was moved to declare: "We don't know what they mean, but that doesn't embarrass us, because Mao Tse-tung obviously doesn't know what they mean either." The world's capitals are all having difficulty in judging the meaning of the tales of peasant armies and pitched battles, of death in high places and kangaroo courts, of confusion and chaos from one end of mainland China to the other. But one thing...
...Kennedy Institute, turned down a petition signed by over 1600 students, 93 teaching fellows, and 52 faculty for McNamara to debate Robert Scheer, editor of Ramparts. He stated academic reasons for this decision, including the "difficulty" of attracting national figures to the Institute. That a public debate should "embarrass" or "upset" a cabinet member, can only demonstrate that he has some lapse of rationality in his record, which he would like to hide. This makes the decision not to debate a political one, motivated by a desire to obfuscate American foreign policy...
...willing to guarantee a peaceful demonstration so long as McNamara was insulated from it (something SDS could have on its own any time); SDS insisted on McNamara in the flesh -- either standing before a public podium or stranded in the street. "All SDS wanted," Neustadt said, "was to embarrass the Secretary of Defense...
...smirked, "Ooo, let me outta here." And in "Soul and Inspiration," in any case an inferior imitation of the first song, Hafiteld stopped before he came to the spoken "baby I can't make it without you" section and quipped, "Okay, bring out the Oscar." Maybe the songs embarrass him so much that he has to let you know how silly and cute he feels singing them. All right, but the Righteous Brothers claim to be the white interpreters of Negro soul music; the thought of James Brown, the quintessence of soul, being anything but absolutely sincere about...
Powerful Prelate. Being called a heretic is nothing new for Pike, who last week resigned the honorary title of auxiliary bishop given him by his diocese in order not to embarrass or involve his successor in the quarrel. Time and again since his consecration, Pike has been denounced by clergy and laymen as an apostate in bishop's clothing for his heterodox views. But never before have such accusations been leveled at him by a fellow bishop, much less so influential a prelate as Henry Louttit, 63, a Southern moderate who is a member of the church...