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Word: shame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shame that Karen will not be in Mexico City to keep her records afloat. Someone else is likely to sink them. In no other sport do records fall so fast. Last year no fewer than 37 world marks were broken, while only 16 track records were improved. In ten years, two full seconds have been lopped off the 100-meter freestyle record. In track the comparable 400-meter dash mark has dropped only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Tarzan v. the Tads | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...lies his personal color-and his professional drabness. Is there still a chance for him to unveil his talent? "That would require a lot more exposure of himself," says Actress Polly Bergen. "And he's not sure that he likes what's inside him, which is a shame." Not to Mitchum. Rich, languid, self-hating, self-loving, he can make a claim shared by only a handful of Hollywood veterans. In a town where fashions in faces change with the tides, he has survived. For Mitchum, that seems to be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Waiting for a Poisoned Peanut | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...outcome of a march-of-dimes-type crusade are a humiliating reminder of Fanon's sad conclusion that black people of our generation are indeed the wretched of the earth. Our fellow Africans who, for various reasons now identify with secessionist Biafra, feel this deep sense of shame also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIAFRAN SECESSION--NIGERIAN REPLIES | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...first act entrance, actors who project physical characteristics early in the play keep projecting them and, as in the Loeb's Balcony, everyone is always clutching at one another to a degree dramatically unjustifiable even in a war story set among the Greeks and Trojans. And it's shame, because Schmidt blocks beautifully on the huge stage (several entrances and scene transitions are stunning) and it would have been nice to see him experiment with more sophisticated dramatic gesture...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Troilus and Cressida | 8/6/1968 | See Source »

...manhood. When I think of how I'm not able to protect myself nor my little woman from the greedy, sadistic hands, mean cruel White hearts, and evil minds of the "White Devil," I lose a bit of my manhood and I shudder and hide my face in shame...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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