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...left the event with more than theories, more than the effete guilt-ridden, liberalism that followed Birmingham and preceded busing. Guilt comes too cheaply when there is work left to be done--not marches, but the still harder work of integrating truth into a society that has never been good at learning is quickly. And gathered with the determined group of activists seemed to be an almost historic sense of hope and common purpose; it seemed clear that though these people had a fight on their hands, they were determined not to let America return to superstition...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Keeping Watch | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...plot unfolds, so does the family's bitter and guilt-ridden past. The well-bred Mary regrets all she abandoned to marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Long Night | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...While guilt-ridden parents, who unwittingly carry the disease, divorce at several times the national average because of CF's agonies, Deford and his wife preserved their marriage with an unspoken agreement that both would not cry at the same time. After Alex died in his arms, Deford's guilt turned to futile anger and finally to a transforming admiration for his courageous daughter. "It frightens me most," he concludes, "that I will meet some great test in my life - maybe one for my life, as she did - and I will not be able to do as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Ordeal | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...forming a genre of its own, great attention has been paid to the phenomenon of survivor's guilt. Elie Weisel gave the issue moving treatment in his widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Truth's Consequences | 4/15/1983 | See Source »

...Broadcasting in Manhattan. Another is the release last month of My Favorite Year, a film based on Caesar and his court of writers, including Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. There is also his autobiography, Where Have I Been? (Crown; $12.95). In the book, Caesar, 60, portrays himself as a guilt-ridden obsessive who even at the peak of his success was on an alcoholic slide fueled by two fifths of Scotch a day. Says Caesar now: "Two generations don't even know me or what I've done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1982 | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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