Word: guilts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...write about the guilt that some mothers feel in divorce...
Women have an infinite capacity for guilt as moms. They're worried about their children at the time of the breakup. They're worried about what's going to be the short-term effect, the long-term effect. They have a sense that they're being less of a mother than they wanted to be. I really feel women have to overcome this, because nobody's perfect...
...Stalin's pudgy Sancho Panza was the man who, in February 1956, delivered the famous four-hour "secret speech" to the party congress in which he set forth Stalin's crimes and began the complex, much delayed process of de-Stalinization. Out of guilt or common decency, he began to rinse the terror out of Soviet life. Writes Taubman: "His daring but bumbling attempt to reform communism began the long, erratic process of putting a human face (initially his own) on an inhumane system...
Last week, the simultaneous start of the war and Spring Break left many feeling uneasy. As the last classes met and first bombs fell, students in the dining halls expressed their mild guilt at vacationing while Americans die, voiced their worries at braving the skies during a war—and then shrugged and packed their bags, still unclear whether it was appropriate to be enjoying the heat of the beach while thousands of American soldiers are fighting in the suffocating heat of the Middle East...
...anti-war protest or two, and eat three meals a day in the dining hall, and in the evenings I will go to the movies with the free tickets I received as a post-thesis present. And the people that I sit next to will feel occasional pangs of guilt when we pass a t.v. screen—shouldn’t I be doing something? And we will sit there together, eating popcorn, as a country...