Word: guilt-ridden
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...meaning, it must carry predictable consequences. And the law for some years has not been certain whether it meant to be a guilt-ridden social worker or a hanging judge. The erratic justice that emerges from the badly overburdened system has been further complicated by the society's spasms of conscience. These arise from the larger unsolved questions of social justice in the U.S., principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others...
...players make uncommon impact, especially Andrew Duncan as a lecherous pressagent and Linda Miller as a divorcee who takes up with a 19-year-old lover. As the not wholly unsympathetic husband, Murphy pulls off a daring piece of acting-a faked yet affecting crying jag that accompanies his guilt-ridden confession of infidelity. Bates, of course, is the most appealing suitor that any woman, married or unmarried, could wish...
...witnessed similar events. The novella thus deals with a dark side of history that many Israelis would prefer to forget. One of the country's best-known authors, Amos Elon (The Israelis: Founders and Sons), describes Smilansky's work as "perhaps the most conscience-stricken, deliberately guilt-ridden piece of contemporary Israeli literature." Hirbet Hiza is required reading in Israeli high schools and has been translated into Arabic. Last week, however, when Israel's national television network scheduled a filmed version, the showing was canceled 90 minutes before air time by Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer...
...great bargain in white paint, and Allen is on the phone. Interview Allen in his penthouse, a comfortable layout that might belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what I'd hoped to do." Keaton argues that the films are lovely, funny, an imperishable...
...this activity and rhetoric has had a significant effect at home. After the guilt-ridden defeat in Viet Nam and the shocks of Watergate, Carter has given many Americans a renewed feeling that they are standing for something good in the world. He has done this in his own special style, but in the tradition of Wilson, Roosevelt and Dulles, who, in very different ways, affirmed that U.S. foreign policy must have a moral content...