Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give us things to say at a job interview or enrich our aesthetic repertoire or help us lose weight. They're just fun. But more often than not, when we sit down with a trashy novel or an old magazine, our enjoyment is accompanied by an unmistakable sense of guilt. We aren't having fun--we're "procrastinating." We're "wasting time." There is no such thing as free time anymore: not because we're so busy, but because the time is not really free. Unless we spend our time working to improve ourselves, we pay for it in guilt...
...Community service can be a way of getting rid of guilt in some ways," Wuchinich says...
...Community service can be a way of getting ridof guilt in some ways," Wuchinich says...
...national dialogue on race is a bunch of garbage. It's a worthless touchy-feely exercise that isn't going to accomplish anything. It's another poorly conceived liberal enterprise that will only dredge up guilt and animosity to no positive...
...know jack about pop culture. Most viewers would probably get a kick out of seeing a Harvard guy wearing the dunce cap. Sure, maybe you think you're a TV junkie, but anything you screw up'll look like cluelessness. A hundred bucks says they play the `Harvard Guilt' card: if you win, it was to be expected because you go to Harvard. But if you lose, the fact that you go to school in Cambridge will let them turn your failure into a manufactured `comeuppance...