Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval court martial, an accused officer's sword must lie before his judges to point the way to innocence or guilt at the trial's end. If the sword is presented hilt forward, he may pick it up and resume his duties. If the point is forward, he has been judged guilty. Last week, in the musty wardroom where Hero Mars stood trial for insubordination and absence without leave, the sword was placed point forward. Penalty: dismissal...
Debaters were discussing Germany's war guilt and U.S. intervention in Central America. In December, Professor Harry Barnes of Smith told a crowd at the Union "Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the cause of the war." The debate team, secure in their temporary safety, beat Dartmouth, arguing against co-education. "Here we pursue knowledge," said E. M. Rowe. "There they pursue women." Over at Radcliffe they just smiled...
...used against Germans in the East. The desire for a return of all that was German beyond the Elbe. The vision of a neutral, unified Germany situated like an annealing cartilage between the raw joints of East and West. The calculations of power politics. A brooding sense of guilt in some; a bland lack of it in others. A survival of the "Master Race" madness that twice in less than 30 years has threatened the world and in the end brought a stupefied, battered but unrepentant Germany to its knees...
...mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority of guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations in his own case, finally arouses the American people to their danger, and affirming anew against a background of indifference, lethargy and contempt the great...
...Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time...