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An article excoriates U.N.
Earl Grinols of the University of Illinois excoriates them as "a shell game, attracting dollars from one person's pocket to another and from one region to another."
--a no-win question about the woman Morris excoriates elsewhere on the site--it asks no similarly rigged question about Mrs. Clinton's opponent, Rudy Giuliani.
Bucking the consensus on The Ice Storm, the New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann excoriates director Ang Lee: "[E]verything in his directing, absolutely everything, is banal."
And why does Christopher Lasch's The New Radicalism in America --the classic indictment of the self-interest of the "concerned" classes, which excoriates progressive paternalism from Jane Addams to the Kennedy administration--leave a big hole where Eleanor should be, giving her a free pass?