Word: guilts
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Dear FM’s Amateur Ethicist, I bought a friend a number of gift vouchers to About Hair. Recently, I learned of the prostitution allegations Cambridge police have levied against the shop, and I’ve been struck with guilt. Should I tell him about the shop’s dirty goings-on? Should I be concerned for him or his safety? I feel really embarrassed about the situation. Thanks, Ms. Worried at the Breakfast Table Dear Ms. WBT, I understand that you’re concerned that you patronized a shop that may have broken...
...Jews in Squirrel Hill, sort of like the Boca Raton of Pittsburgh. They belonged to a Jewish country club where they celebrated the holidays. Mom and Dad decided to raise my sister and me as Jews, saddling us with a rich tradition of good jokes and gefilte fish and guilt. Another thing I know about him: he had a Masonic funeral. My sister told me that the non-conventional service only lasted 15 minutes. Turns out that I had made my dad’s Blackberry ring during it. So besides the fact that I missed a funeral that...
...comic dimension to the play with his keen sarcasm and biting wit. Alwa’s role soon grows more serious, however, along with the overall tone of the play. Lulu is implicated in the murder of one of her husbands. As she subsequently attempts to cover up her guilt with offers of sex, which she markets by exploiting her innocent appearance, Lulu’s core of true innocence begins to scratch away...
...leaders of SLAM—who wage their campaign of guilt via rhetorical exaggerations about dignity and respect—are in dire need of serious introspection and critical analysis of the immediate and less obvious implications of their statements, their cause, and their own individual choices. SLAM and the SEIU act out of a combination of misinformation, miseducation, and self-preservation. We’re all owed more than that...
...less overt in its condemnation of the trade. Composed from a sketch of a real slave market, it shows neatly dressed women and children sitting on a bench. The normality of the scene - one of the women is even smiling - packs a punch. A contemporary critic claimed "the appalling guilt of that accursed system was never more successfully depicted." However progressive that message may have seemed at the time, the picture portrays its black subjects in circumstances viewers then and now would expect. These assumptions are challenged, however, by the show's introductory section, in which black people feature...