Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...
...affect the basic intent and merely stressed "those things which unite men and lead to mutual fellowship." Predictably, Jewish organizations responded favorably to the vote for the declaration, although their enthusiasm was something less than ecstatic. That there should be debate at all on the question of Jewish guilt seemed wrong to some; others felt that the bishops had compromised by adopting a statement that was less forthright and to the point than it might be. Particularly annoying were the omission of the deicide clause, and a reference to "Jewish authorities" and their followers who had pressed for the death...
Although they helped create the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and have subsequently produced hundreds of weapons capable of unprecedented destruction, the citizens of Los Alamos are neither self-conscious nor guilt-ridden about their role. They are also remarkably unconcerned about living in a city that would be a prime target in any war, and in which megaton-range weapons are produced within sight of their front doors. This sense of detachment, caused more by geography than psychology, extends even to world events. While Los Alamos residents become passionately involved in local controversies and conservation drives, they are notably uncommunicative...
...betrayal as well as advancement. The Negro is the only American whose loyalty to his country has not made him an accomplice in a succession of dubious enterprises from Cuba to Southeast Asia. If the vision of the Negro is sometimes distorted by hatred, it is seldom blurred by guilt...
...stem from the preconceived notions he entertains of the Negro and the Movement. Fine, but why treat only two of these notions, and at that the two have been most throughly discussed already, Granted, some whites join the struggle because they see the Negro as the Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some seek an escape from the boredom of affluence, or the puritanism of the middle middle class, or the rootlessness of suburbia, etc. For Zigmond's detached...