Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change of attitude. Ten years after, four years after, was there a better word for the twist that had made the two great enemies of freedom the bulwarks against freedom's newly recognized enemy? Was the word redemption? Had the suffering of the vanquished expiated their guilt...
Henry Bishop, a middle-aged shopkeeper, trembled with shock. Was that kiss the first? Had Madge encouraged it, had she smiled back at the man? A muddled rush of feeling seized him: pity for himself as a rejected husband, envy of the stranger's virile appearance, guilt that he had failed to step up and challenge the fellow. Bishop felt even more confused when the stranger bounced over to introduce himself as the new neighbor, Charles Diver. The man invited them to dinner, and Madge, who had come downstairs, cheerfully said...
Gestapo. Many Germans, he realized even then, shared passively in Nazi guilt by shutting their eyes to evil or by keeping silent about it. After the war, as he heard of the new wave of totalitarian terror sweeping the Soviet zone, he decided that "silence is suicide." For months he begged refugees from Soviet-zone concentration camps to stand up and tell their story. Last winter he found one man and one woman who were willing to take the risk. With them, he staged a deeply impressive public meeting. Out of it emerged his organization, the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (Fighters...
...slang, and there is an Omo chief in the book who suffers from "a slight guilt complex." But, by and large, this is hot, strong stuff, and not since Elinor Glyn and Ethel M. Dell has a writer put in her thumb and pulled out the sort of plum this pie is full of (e.g., "He had cut her open with a sword, but she was too proud to let him see the bleeding...
...shock-haired youth named John J. (for Jay) McCloy, then just out of Amherst, later was to spend ten years of his life proving that the rumors were true, and hanging the Black Tom guilt on the German government. He learned the worst of the Germans as he threaded his way through a maze of false leads up & down Europe; he learned of German deceit and arrogance and violence that had led to one world calamity and was to lead to another...