Word: opprobrium
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...popular conception of Bowie's parabolic musical career, even on the part of sympathetic critics, has been tinged with some of this Victorian opprobrium: Bowie the musical chameleon, the masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical...
Kennedy's persistent smile through the primaries was at first forced, but then it came from an understanding that he was proving something to himself. He could take the political opprobrium that was heaped upon him and still keep his dignity. He confided to a friend not long ago that being jeered with Mayor Jane Byrne in Chicago, a city that used to revere his brother John, had left an ugly scar. Finding, when he began to falter, that professed "old friends" in the Senate and the nation's statehouses would not even return his phone calls shocked him into...
Barbour was stationed in Bulgaria when war was declared. "There was less of it at the beginning, in 1930, and diplomacy was acquiring opprobrium as a striped pants gentlemanly occupation. However, clouds were gathering, clouds which carried the lightning of upheaval, and which still persist today, with different manifestations but with the fundamental ingredient of increasing Soviet power...