Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agustin, a man of convention, says he won't. But his heart says yes, and the heart wins. Yet, as Author Pérez Galdós does things, this is no commonplace happy ending. It is an end to anguish achieved by a cleansing of guilt on Amparo's part, by the courage on Agustin's to dismiss the sneers of his narrow world. An old story, but Torment shows how good...
...Some common psychosomatic symptoms can be mistaken for the common cold reported the University of Oklahoma's Dr Stewart Wolf. Hostility to the boss or resentment against mother-in-law as well as guilt and frustration can produce a stuffy head with "sinus headache" and a runny nose, as the body tries to wash out mother-in-law as it does dust or other irritants...
Professor Lerner said that the Legion's protest was based on supposition, rather than fact, and that its success was a sign of the growing sentiment that accusation, no matter how unfounded, is tantamount to guilt...
...privileged refusal to testify is not an admission of guilt for the purposes of criminal prosecution. Its effect on popular opinion is, of course, not within constitutional control. A refusal may mean only that the witness has innocently got into a situation where he is apparently though not actually guilty of a crime; but fairly or not, the fact that he feels it necessary to refuse information to a government agency on the ground that it will tend to incriminate him inevitably casts a shadow on his reputation...
...safeguards of due process of law, or to avert a danger of prosecution for perjury in case one's testimony should later be contradicted by the false testimony of others. Furthermore, since we are not conducting a criminal trial, we will not shut over eyes to the inference of guilt which the use of the Fifth Amendment creates as a matter of commonsense. Hence, the use of the Fifth Amendment by a member of our teaching staff within the critical field of his possible domination by the Communist Party, makes it necessary in our judgement for us to inquire into...