Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew charged, can create issues overnight and turn nobodies into national figures. But Agnew's own examples suggested that this process has limits. He mentioned Stokely Carmichael; in Carmichael's case, notoriety happened, at least in part, for complicated psychological reasons having to do with white guilt. Agnew also mentioned George Lincoln Rockwell; in his case, only minor notoriety resulted, and only assassination transformed him into a national figure...
...Harvard procedure says nothing about identification of students. Wilson said that while identification by a dean is not "proof beyond a shadow of a doubt" of a student's guilt, such a produre might conceivably be used at Harvard because the resulting suspension is only temporary and because, "University discipline uses the standards not of criminal but of civil procedure, where all you have to show is 'a preponderance of evidence...
...proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits would be restricted to eleven specified offenses -for example, worthless warranties and false claims for a product. Consumers would not be allowed to sue until the Justice Department established the offender's guilt in court...
...fear and uncertainty of life. Yet this kind of security is not automatic. The man in "At the Drugstore" can say that he and his father "had . . . made these adjustments and concessions that a happy and successful life requires. . . . They had long ago absolved each other of any guilt. As two men, they respected each other and enjoyed each other's company. All the rest was nonsense...
...front of a Liberian freighter carrying grain for Royalists in Yemen? Impossible. Will Barnett make a mockery of the Camp aesthetic and win the ice-cold heart of Rosalie by memorizing all the shows of the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour! Improbable. Might Barnett expiate 400 years of white guilt by joining "a group of young white businessmen who had gathered together to back a Negro clothes designer and a Harlem dress store in a new line of maternity clothes called 'Mother Jumpers'?" Unconscionable. Could Barnett win Rosalie's attention by mastering "overcope," the technique of avoiding...