Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feelings of guilt began to be obsessive. She began to hear a noise in her head at night-and she began to brood about killing herself. The family noticed the change in her, and the whispers went around: "We have to watch her very carefully. It's in the family, you know." Norma Jeane knew what they were saying, and sank deeper into her troubles...
...bread, the army cot by the water heater, the monthly visit from the county social worker who inspected the soles of her shoes and patted the top of her head and went away. And there were still the noises in her head and the nameless feelings of guilt...
...will put on her makeup five or six times before she is satisfied with her looks. "And then, too," a friend points out, "when she is late she feels guilty, and since she has always felt guilty she feels comfortable that way. It is easier for Marilyn to take guilt than responsibility...
...Politburo except Chief Defendant Trotsky (in exile) and Joseph Stalin, who brought the charges. All 54 were executed, or disappeared in Siberia. What made Prosecutor Vishinsky's triumph as peculiar as it was complete was that all the accused seemed to make free admissions of their guilt...
...leap to absolute power easy by confessing (whether it was true or not) to a conspiracy against him. It was conjectured that they had done so 1) for ideological reasons, i.e., to preserve the monolithic party front, or 2) because their consciences were poisoned by the common guilt of Communist intrigue, or 3) to indicate obliquely, by admitting the incredible and fantastic, that they were being murdered. Later study of Soviet police methods, e.g., the Cardinal Mindszenty case, suggests a simpler explanation: the Old Bolsheviks were subjected to physical and mental torture and blackmailed by threat of injury to their...