Word: culpa
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What the black kid then replies to the white boy's mea culpa is a striking example of false consciousness. "We're all in the same bag," he says, "We've all been kicked out. Let's face it, this job is the first time we've ever belonged to anything...
Postwar German fiction has its mea culpa school, its black-humor crowd and its how-did-it-happen-to-us hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help...
...contritely candid performance last week before the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Gaud pleaded mea culpa for AID's foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency...
...cease defining and defending American foreign policies in grossly oversimplified terms. Let us also desist from the excessive spirit of mea culpa which permeates certain quarters of American society." Since World War II, they said, the U.S. has performed remarkably well in international affairs...
This sort of mea culpa colloquy sounds at moments like a quartet of Paris cab drivers divvying up the honors from a four-way crash. But Enough Rope, despite one or two lapses in its logic, never loses its head en route to an ironic final twist...