Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legal morality-if it ever existed in the U.S.-is dead, as your story on Edward Bennett Williams [Feb. 10] proves. Lawyers are not concerned with the guilt or innocence of their clients but with what "mistakes" the police or prosecution have made and what angles can be played to spring the guy-all in the name of constitutional rights. The result: not a trial to determine justice, but a game. No onus descends on Williams when he frees a guilty client for technical reasons; he gets praise, money and prestige for defeating justice. Isn't it time that...
...chief opponent. This horrendous fact was reported last week, over the chop mark of Mrs. Mao's own purge committee, as proof that the Maoists' struggle to overcome the enemies of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is far from won. "They disdainfully refuse to admit their guilt," said the wall posters at the People's University in Peking. "We still have a long way to go before eliminating them...
Furthermore, in Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "we have the hump of sexual guilt he carries on his back (he is a different porter now), a hint of the ape, and more than a hint of the insect." To the straightforward reader, it may appear that the explanation only compounds the problem, especially when Burgess points out that the French for "earwig" is perce-oreille, which "can be Hibernicized into Persse O'Reilly," a name appropriate to H. C. Earwicker's dream career as an Irish patriot. His initials also mean "Here Comes Everybody" (turning the sleeper into Everyman...
...seem to be a form of psychotherapy. But there is something sinister in the Hen's objective; he seems to want Y to wallow in instances of minor childhood sadism. When Y balks and refuses to go to sessions, he is methodically starved. Only when his litanies of guilt sound convincing to the Hen is he introduced to a group of others like himself. Y quickly becomes their natural leader and scon decides that he, too, would make a good Hen. Then, during a Kafkaesque hearing, Y fails the crucial test: asked if he is convinced of amorphous guilt...
From his birth to his death (hinted in the book to be suicide, even though he was known to be seriously ill with heart trouble), Whittaker Chambers was a guilt-ridden man, in Zeligs' view. He felt guilty for his painful birth, guilty for his "hatred" of his parents, and guilty for his love of his brother Richard, a wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search...