Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against fellow man), as well as for evil; but I have not as yet laid blame (or credit) to the gun. It is interesting to ponder if the emotion of the moment will bring on a joust with windmills, and whether the result will provide a catharsis for the guilt complex of a nation in turmoil...
...Jack Newfield, a noisy supporter of Kennedy, used the occasion to berate all the people who do not share his apocalyptic, sock-it-to-'em view of politics. Newfield felt "rage," he said, "at men like Archbishop Cooke and Eric Hoffer, who say America should feel no national guilt, because the assassin was a Jordanian nationalist...
...first novel, she operates good-naturedly in the postanalysis, guilt-free era. God is not only dead, there never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo...
...existence, and Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum, a satire on the evils of selling out and compromise. The Public Theater's artistic director, Gerald Freedman, staged the rock musical Hair, which to Papp is "about loneliness," and Jakov Lind's Ergo, which dealt with guilt for the horrors of World...
...Illinois, as in many states, the jury in capital cases is given the responsibility of deciding the sentence, as well as guilt. Convicted of killing a Chicago policeman in 1959, William Witherspoon was sentenced to death by a jury that had been purged of anyone with "general objections" to capital punishment. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court ruled such a practice unconstitutional; Witherspoon had not been tried by a true cross section of the community, since only 42% of the nation favors the death penalty according to a 1966 Gallup poll, said the court. His conviction stands...