Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watch for emerging support groups for working parents trying to deal with the sudden absence of guilt in their lives. According to Ellen Galinsky?s new book, "Ask the Children: What America?s Children Really Think About Working Parents," the majority of kids in dual-income households feel they spend enough time with their parents. Only 10 percent of the 1,000 children Galinsky interviewed wish they could spend more time with their moms, while 16 percent want more of their dads? time. Many parents who were interviewed predicted their kids would want them to stop working, while in fact...
...book, all this makes Williams the perfect stage father for the '90s. Unencumbered with guilt for making lots of money in flush times, he is also unburdened with doubt about the way he made it. And why should he be burdened at all? In an era when a great many less appealing and pleasant people than he blissfully screw others to get ahead, Richard did it the old-fashioned way, and with the woman he loves. Free of shame, he is also free to love his highly profitable girls wholeheartedly, which--it is clear for all to see--he does...
...time, Walsh has refused to step down from his post, as if aware that his resignation would bring up the dignity of Cambridge government beyond where it deserves to be. Walsh's colleagues have made a fundamental mistake in relying mainly on statute to force the removal. Walsh's guilt and weight would surely break the scales of Justice--if the City Council really wants to get rid of this particular dead weight, it should abandon statutes and try a crane...
...part of an insidious campaign by black leaders to create a "politically inspired group psychosis [in which] we find it natural to collude with demagogic race hustlers in supporting a fantasy in which African Americans are no longer responsible for anything negative they do, even to themselves." Shaking down guilt-feeling whites, he says, has allowed "racial ambulance chasers" like Jesse Jackson and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Kweisi Mfume to live like millionaires. If blacks are really oppressed in America, he asks, "why isn't there a black exodus...
Still, there are signs of progress even here. Felicity's virginity loss last season, though tinged with guilt, was refreshingly free of melodrama. And TV's embrace of bad sex is, at best, a stab at honesty, which isn't always pretty. Carrie wonders, "Have we put such a premium on being open and honest with one another that we've misplaced the boundaries of propriety?" Perhaps, but they often came with fictions and stereotypes. For City's cool superwomen, a little cynicism can be empowering, as on an episode about an acquaintance's whirlwind wedding. A lesser sitcom would...