Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails to develop this suggestion beyond referring the reader as usual to Long Day's Journey...
WHILE THE WAR has its roots in tribalism, the baffling political history of Nigeria makes it impossible to point a finger of guilt at any particular group. When the British carved out their colonial empire in West Africa, they paid little attention to anything but economic and administrative expediency. Nigeria is an uneasy marriage of over two hundred tribal groupings, many with linked histories and cultural similarities, others with very different roots and ways of living. The Hausa-Fulani with about 29 million tribesmen dominate the North. Islam is their faith, and they trace their origins to the North...
...EGALITARIAN. Today we live in a land of racial tension, bred of 200 years of misunderstanding, fear and injustice-bred of guilt that the American reality often has been so shockingly at odds with the ideal...
...particularly rough flight. "It has always been a multiple thing," he says. For a few, the fear may result from a death in the family resulting from an air crash. For others, the airplane may represent separation-from both the ground and loved ones. Deep feelings of guilt often play a role. "A man who feels guilty toward his wife," says Alston, "expects a catastrophe, such as a crash, as punishment...
...Without guilt, sex was meaningless. One advanced into sex against one's sense of guilt, and each time guilt was successfully defied, one had learned a little more about the contractual relation of one's own existence to the unheard thunders of the deep--each time guilt herded one back with its authority, some primitive awe--hence some creative clue to the rages of the deep--was left to brood about. Onanism and homosexuality were not, to Mailer, light vices--to him it sometimes seemed that much of life and most of society were designed precisely to drive men deep...