Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ritual mystery. Protestant sermons are soggy with sociology. Occultism, though thriving (TIME, June 19), comes on too much like fraternity rites staged by the devil's disciple. The old maxims ("This above all: To thine own self be true"; "I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul," etc.) embarrass. Still, hardly anybody can live on irony and neostoicism for long. Even against what seems to be common sense, it is essential to believe in the possibilities of individual endeavor. There, suddenly, stands Jonathan Livingston Seagull, an Horatio Alger in feathers...
More simply, Thieu could threaten to embarrass Nixon by loudly rejecting the Kissinger plan and vowing to carry on the fight against the Communists alone. The Administration might find it difficult politically to cut off U.S. aid to Saigon under those circumstances. But it could effectively counter by threatening to negotiate a bilateral, separate peace with Hanoi-a possibility that worries many South Vietnamese...
...scratch up from the authorities for new churches. Only 37 are currently authorized, though some Polish parishes must run Masses all day long on Sundays to accommodate the crowds. An invitation to Pope Paul VI to visit Poland seems still some distance in the future, since it could embarrass the government by revealing the strength of Polish Catholicism...
...nonsense to argue that the cancellation of the Olympics would have constituted a surrender to terrorism. The terrorists were not seeking to close the Olympics or to embarrass the Olympic Committee. They chose the Olympics for their attack because in their search for easy targets they found the Israeli team extremely vulnerable. The proper response would have been to end the Munich Games. By making this great sacrifice, the nations and athletes of the world would have thus proclaimed in more than empty words their belief in the insanity and immorality of terrorism...
...Munich, received a stream of telephone calls threatening the lives of Spitzer's widow and baby daughter. Eventually, Israeli security agents had to help the Spitzers leave the country secretly. Only France seems to have been spared such incidents, presumably because Arab terrorists do not wish to embarrass a government that is supplying jet fighters to Libya...