Word: culpa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflection ?it's sort of an admitting mea culpa for our whole system of justice...
...collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure. It can only be observed that in other times, in other wars, the American soul has been marked missing in action, only to return safely home to begin...
...From the noise made about our so-called defeat in the U.N. [Nov. 8], it seems like we are supposed to be suffering from a mass sense of men culpa. But whose fault was it that Red China vas branded an aggressor...
...black confinement is fair enough, but nowadays the ghetto can be as chic as Fifth Avenue. In their self-indulgent militancy, black playwrights of Van Peebles' frenzied stamp like to think that they are raising welts on The Man's conscience. Actually, they are catering to a masochistic mea culpa claque and assorted liberal breast beaters...
...Culpa Dept: In Saturday's review of Black Comedy, I incorrectly suggested that its author, Peter Shaffer, could also claim title to Slouth, I was wrong. Slouth was written by Anthony Shaffer, Peter's twin brother I am told. But then you know those Britishers, they all do sound alike...