Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus plumbing the female subconscious, Psychologist Dichter decided that what kept women from watching pure entertainment programs in the daytime was 1) fear of temptation and resultant loss of work time, 2) guilt feelings if work is not finished, and 3) fear of loss of recognition as a "sacrificing housewife." On the other hand, Dr. Dichter believes that women would be bored stiff by "domestic and educational" programs. His conclusion, a tip to program directors and sponsors: to catch women daytime viewers, shows must be labeled as "educational" but actually be "camouflaged entertainment...
Farley Granger plays the young truck driver who is nagged by poverty, a sense of guilt over the death of his pious mother and a confused resentment against his testy old parish priest and the Roman Catholic Church itself. Obsessed with the idea of making up for his mother's death, he determines that the church must pay for a sumptuous funeral. When the priest balks, the truck driver murders him. Then a younger, understanding priest (Dana Andrews) and a detective (Robert Keith) stand by until the killer gives himself away and collapses into repentance...
Neither is Mr. Niebuhr's thesis that the Renaissance movement toward glorifying the individual was a wicked flight into paganism well taken. It could just as logically be argued that this was a reaction against the depressing, guilt-producing dogma of the church that man is innately evil, and represented a flight into freedom, away from dogma contrary to man's nature...
...Since the law prescribed a finding of guilt (against the "subversive" groups) without judicial trial, it was a bill of attainder and thus invalid...
...violated due process of law because; it was too vague, "a 'dragnet' which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of government"; it lacked provisions for judicial proof of individual membership in subversive groups; it set up a "presumption of (organizational) guilt"; and the law constituted 'guilt by association' with a vengeance...