Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect, McCain claims that the lesson he learned from the Keating scandal was that in politics, appearances matter. Even if he hadn't done anything wrong, guilt by association was enough to ruin even his image. But it's hard to see that as the main lesson, given how careless he still is about appearances. He denounces big-spending special interests and yet accepts flights on corporate jets; he puts the speaker of the Arizona house of representatives on his campaign payroll despite a flurry of ethics charges around him; he neglects to recuse himself from debates about measures that...
...dark. Using his imposing physical presence, Duncan illustrates this juxtaposition while communicating the integrity that defines his character - a nave innocence contrasted with a keenly insightful spirit and a loving soul. In Edgecomb's eyes, this contrast, along with Coffey's miraculous "gift," casts doubt onto his alleged guilt, allowing him to see Coffey not as a murderer, but as a man wrongfully accused...
...snuffed out in Disgrace. The novel is set in the current phase of the countrys violent and troubled history. On the one hand, it is a phase characterized by criminal brutality on the part of former victims of apartheid, and on the other hand, by the public admissions of guilt by the perpetrators of apartheid crimes in the forum of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
...train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses to make the hollow gesture of publishing an apology to maintain his position at the university. Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit...
...pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing for a former, more heroic self; anger and outrage. But the novel traces the process whereby he is able to find his own way of expiating his abuse of power and his guilt at being useless to his daughter and thereby is able to confront reality...