Word: guilt
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...Guilt & Garbage. To hear some experts tell it, the Warren court has covered so much ground that it now faces its dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work...
Emotionally, Weiss fails by being emetic rather than tragically cathartic. Intellectually, he appears to embrace the fallacy of universal guilt. The words Jew and German are never once uttered in The Investigation. Ironically, this depersonalization is not unrelated to the dehumanization that made the whole merciless horror possible. As the victims, the Jews merit the epitaph of being named. As the perpetrators of the crime, the Germans deserve to be indicted...
Masochistic guilt collectors will doubtless form a part of any audience that this play may find, as well as unavowed sadists. To arouse the conscience of man is admirable but in this non-play Weiss mainly succeeds in raising the gorge...
...today are also bothered by shifting sexual attitudes. If they are not inclined to take advantage of the new permissiveness, they may worry that they are latent homosexuals; if they do take advantage, they often discover that "intimacy without emotion," as U.C.L.A. Consultant Psychiatrist Robert Berns explains it, produces guilt rather than pleasure or fulfillment...
Projected Figures. Exact figures are impossible to obtain, since suicides in college are kept closely under wraps. Many are recorded as "accidents"-mainly because a suicide leaves feelings of shame and guilt among the living. Moderator Editor Philip Werdell, 25, arrived at his estimates by probing every study he could find, then discreetly burying a question about suicide in a questionnaire on psychiatric services sent to 300 colleges. He got some candid answers, projected the figures from them...