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Word: guiltproof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities, and cities into megalopolises, nobody knows his neighbor's name-or feels responsible to him. The impersonality of the supermarket, the super university, the super-corporation gives the individual a guiltproof out: "After all, I'm not hurting anybody in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LARCENY IN EVERYDAY LIFE | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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