Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-witted John Straffen, who had never felt the slightest sense of guilt over any of his crimes, the capture meant simply the end of a lovely afternoon. For the villagers whose homes lie within escaping distance of Broadmoor Institution, it meant something else. Next morning the strangled body of a little girl, six years old, was found in a thicket along Straffen's route from Crowthorne to Arborfield...
...first, none of this seemed to perturb Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, but his aide reported that Brannan felt Walker had been guilty of only indiscretions. But this week Clovis Walker suddenly quit his job, denying "any implication of guilt," but adding that to stay on would be "embarrassing to the department and detrimental to my health...
...when the real criminal spoke up, but only the dullest reader will be. On the other hand, Author Ber-gengruen does not seem noticeably con> cerned with the mystery side of his morality whodunit. His novel's many-faceted problem embraces, besides conscience, might v. right, personal sacrifice, guilt, love and faith...
...been particularly distressing to me that the CRIMSON and Miss Stock have fallen into the same trap as that which they accuse NSA. The guilt by association principal has apparently carried so far that when a former officer of an organization (NSA) makes a statement as Mr. Elsenberg did, it is taken as that organization's official position. The truth of the matter is that the only official statement made by NSA in regard to the Madison meeting on academic freedom, peace and equality was to call attention to the fact that NSA was not invited and consequently...
...Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker and MacDougal Streets but no roofs over their weary souls. Plagued with guilt-edged insecurities, they have one fear, themselves; one foe, reality; one condition, despair; one refuge, dope. Charged on Tea and Horse, they are world-beaters...