Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach with some new ideas and a more aggressive recruiting style who has a less desirable character. It may come down to this: Do you hire a Ned Harkness-type who could produce a winner but whose brazenly crude tactics would force the Administration to turn away with shame? Or do you stick with Floyd Wilson and produce losing team after losing team. It is possible to find a middle solution, perhaps...
...economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant workers, Harvest of Shame. But both of NET's programs proved, as one of the films concluded, that "the migrant condition is still the shame of the nation...
...from Wall Street, a relatively small mutual fund last year put some of the East's established giants to shame. Enterprise Fund of Los Angeles registered a 116.9% gain in net assets. Among the 20 best mutual-fund per formers for five years, Enterprise really started moving when soft-spoken Fred Carr, 36, took over its management in October 1966: under his guidance, the fund's assets have increased from less than $20 million to $250 million, and the value of a share has jumped from $3.77 to over...
...Shame of the Living. Many of the 75 hibakusha whom Lifton interviewed told of being torn between the gladness of survival and the pain of being alive because someone else was dead. In many cases, hibakusha survived because they ignored those in need...
Lifton sees this "shame of the living," as Yōkō Ōta called it, as perhaps the most fundamental human guilt. "The survivor," he writes, "can never, inwardly, simply conclude that it was logical and right for him, and not others, to survive."If [others] had not died, he would have had to; if he had not survived, someone else would have." In discussing this phenomenon, Lifton makes the argument that all men are survivors of Hiroshima...