Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio Hanoi reported blandly " that and the mob might was otherwise "highly disciplined have been prompted to "tear Johnson's sky warriors to pieces." With an obvious eye toward using their "testimony" in drumhead trials, the North Vietnamese also announced that a number of prisoners have "confessed" their guilt...
Neither riots nor sprinklers, however, would do anything to alleviate the Negroes' basic economic and social wants. Massive outbursts, such as Chicago witnessed last week, can only, in King's words, "intensify the fears of the white majority while relieving their guilt...
Thus, at the center of the contemporary stage remains the European drama represented by Beckett, lonesco, Genet, Pinter and Osborne. None are alike; yet all raise a hemlock toast to the 20th century. Theirs is a drama of metaphysical anguish, rigorous negation, asocial stance, skin-prickling guilt and anxiety, and abidingly absurd humor. In their plays, the situation of man is horrible and funny at the same time. Ionesco says that man laughs so as not to cry. The problem these playwrights pose is man's oldest and newest-the existence problem...
Riddled with guilt and anxiety, Pinter's people are Kafkaesque in that they cannot evade, placate, or even contact the unseen powers. He deals in archetypes that subtly evoke family figures, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. The two brothers who take in and then evict the scrofulous bum in The Caretaker might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that...
Kisses & Votes. Speaking for the Supreme Court, Justice Tom Clark gave no opinion as to Sheppard's guilt or innocence. Clark focused entirely on the "editorial artillery" that began accusing police and "hired lawyers" of covering up the doctor's alleged guilt immediately after the 1954 crime. The salvos came from all three Cleveland papers -the Press, the Plain Dealer and the News (since bought by the Press). One front-page editorial in the Press actually urged that Sheppard "instantly" receive "the same third degree to which any person under similar circumstances is subjected...