Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing things. A lot of blame is also put on the high pressure of modern life, on the drive for success at all costs, on the decline of old ethical restraints. As long ago as two decades, Anthropologist Ruth Benedict observed that the U.S. was changing from a "guilt culture," in which people's consciences restrained them, to a "shame culture," in which the main deterrent was fear of getting caught...
...former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers in his possession when the FBI arrested him in June. Yet toy-store badges could be, and sometimes were, used just as effectively as real badges. Apparently the victims were so racked by feelings of guilt that few of them had enough self-possession to challenge the blackmailers...
...pills have been suspected as possible factors in some women's deaths, but the report found no clear evidence of the pills' guilt. The committee's difficulty was that there are few reliable bases for comparison-no one knows the incidence of various disorders and diseases among women generally, including those who have never taken the pills...
...Public Safety Director Francis Lynch argues, "If we can't get to the truth, we can't solve cases. If we can't talk to the accused, whom can we talk to? The victim is often either dead or missing." Cincinnati Prosecutor Melvin Rueger complains, "Guilt or innocence is no longer the issue. The prime issue is whether a suspect was searched, interrogated or detained." Minneapolis Chief Calvin Hawkinson hits the "tone" of the ruling: "The emphasis of the court's decision is on individual rights and the public be damned, at a time when...
...appeal went unanswered by North Viet Nam, which has already flouted the Geneva Convention by parading U.S. prisoners before hostile street mobs, by refusing to allow Red Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less grisly than the possibility of their execution was the prospect that Hanoi's leaders may "spare" their American prisoners-only to sentence them to forced labor in installations likely to come under U.S. bombing attack-even though the convention specifies that prisoners can be put to work only on projects...