Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that trauma came a year ago this month when I went to Washington to cover the Pentagon March for this paper and another. My sympathy was with the demonstrators--that was well-established in my mind long before I went, and I felt no guilt about it. I was sure that I could still report the story accurately simply by making myself into a reporter--a quick metamorphosis from man to journalist, done every day. I had also established a rationale for covering the march but not marching--it was the role I could play best in this revolutionary movement...
...GLASS BOOTH. Actor-Author Robert Shaw introduces some precarious psychologizing and implausible "what-if" elements to an Eichmann-like situation in a rerun of the victimization of the Jews and Nazi guilt. Donald Pleasence enlivens an otherwise turgid evening with a memorable performance...
...DANIEL: So far, I have not touched on my motives in the Czechoslovak question. I do not admit guilt, but have I any regrets? To some extent, I do. I regret very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist...
...adds three central characters-a German, an Englishman, a German-born Israeli-all lawyers assigned to the case. At first, they seem to invite a formal, wooden trialogue that might be entitled "stances to be taken when confronted by the enormities of the past." The German protects himself from guilt by evolving a woozy, romantic notion of national change and renewal. Today's "good, decent people," he reflects hazily, could no longer be "the same people who had performed the actions . . . the horrifying things they had." The Englishman avoids large moral judgments, clinging instead to those personal restraints...
Grunwald sees the Nazi horrors less as crimes against the Jews than sins against life itself. Such sins, he observes, are atonable, if at all, only in heaven-and only through a sense of guilt. The Germans, he believes, feel none. "How is it possible for them to make good again?" he asks. "The dead they can't repay. The dead family without an heir they can't repay. If they'd managed to kill every member of every family, they'd have nothing to repay...