Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson threesome at Princeton successfully declared that adopting guilt by association is invalid. Persons, must be convicted on overt acts, not on their beliefs, it held...
...first two years was spent in demilitarization and the purge of war-guilty officials. The trusts of the Zaibatsu, big family combines, were broken up. SCAP, however, had nothing to substitute for the old Japanese way of doing business. The Zaibatsu unquestionably carried a heavy share of Japanese war guilt. But instead of punishing individuals for individual offenses, the U.S. economic policy in effect punished the entire Japanese nation because the effect of it was to forestall such limited economic recovery as was still possible. The 1945 basic U.S. occupation directive to MacArthur had stated flatly: "You will not assume...
While his employees work hard, in a mental state that resembles a guilt complex, Farrell feels occasional doubts. Recently he told an interviewer he would quit Broadway when the current adventure was ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...
...sense of guilt, Sheen says, the Roman Catholic Church can lead him to God-through confession, absolution and penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
...world of difference between [them]. Peace of mind is the result of bringing some ordering principle to bear on discordant human experiences; this may be achieved by tolerance, or by a gritting of one's teeth in the face of pain; by killing conscience, or denying guilt, or by finding new loves to assuage old griefs. Each of these is an integration, but on a very low level. This kind of peace our Lord calls false, and he likens it to living under the dominion of Satan...