Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wildly to get out. Behind its mythic pretensions to be a fire-and-water purification ritual, Milkbottle H has the first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...
Adolf von Thadden, the party's Prussian-born leader, pushes the idea that Germany should get back all the land that it lost after World War II, rejects the notion of German war guilt and wants the U.S. to get out of Europe. He calls for a massive "moral regeneration" to lift Germany to what he considers its rightful place in the world. From a dingy set of offices above a restaurant in Hanover, Von Thadden runs a slickly professional organization that has its own newspaper and 470 chapters throughout West Germany...
...across the nation. Children under ten write much the best letters, they claim. Below that age, explains Hample, "children regard everyone as their equal, including God. Another fascinating thing is the total lack of fear that children displayed in the letters. I suppose that is because they have no guilt...
...history of U.S. drinking has been marked by two revolutions. The first dates from the 1840s, when the national temperance movement began its crusade to dry up the country. In the process, which led to the Prohibition Amendment of 1919, the U.S. developed a guilt complex about drink that it has not yet fully overcome. But there is increasing evidence of the second revolution in the public attitude toward alcohol: the country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product...
...fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made of vodka, gunpowder and congealed blood. But he also kept a list of puritanical Rules of Life, which he usually updated during the tormented periods of guilt that almost always followed his revels. Even his searing self-rebuke often seemed gluttonous. He was, says Troyat in one of the book's few sprightly phrases, "a billy-goat pining for purity...