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...producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David ?Fathead? Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what?s been gained; it?s what?s left...
...eyes of Pusey’s predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, pleading the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and many universities had dismissed faculty members who remained silent under questioning...
...That's where Old Boy and the Tarantino oeuvre part company, in the Korean movie's belief that guilt, not vengeance, can be the spur to a man's darkest deeds. The film's big set pieces?the devouring of a live octopus, the tongue removal without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking?are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. That's not a Hollywood precept. What American movie would climax with the hero begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes? What U.S. movie...
...reactions then and since suggest the soldiers needn't worry. If many Americans of a certain age feel guilt about their failure to separate their opposition to the Vietnam War from the men who fought it, they have been determined ever since not to repeat that error. Sympathy for the soldiers is acute, even as opinion about the present war still divides and doubts begin to conquer even former supporters. Respect for the troops is the one thing Americans have in common when nothing else can be shared. Far from bringing shame on all soldiers, the Abu Ghraib scandal elicits...
...them much. Indeed, they may have needed to leave scarred bodies in every public square as evidence of their power. That very lack of scarring in some ways is even worse. A UN psychologist who works with victims of stealth torture observes that the feelings of shame, remorse and guilt ?would not have been experienced had the subjects been physically scarred.? Physical scars can be shown without shame; they win sympathy and recognition from families and communities. But the photographs at Abu Ghraib put the survivors in a vicious bind. What is necessary proof of modern stealthy violence also revives...