Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is not a vote of confidence in, or congratulation for, homosexuality. Those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of loneliness, guilt, shame and other difficulties. The crucial question we have to answer is whether, in addition to these other disadvantages, they should also be made subject to the full rigor of the criminal...
...Soviets this spring awarded him a Lenin Peace Prize worth 25,000 rubles (officially $27,775). Not to be outdone, Kent disclosed that he has donated $10,000 of it to "the suffering women and children of Viet Nam's Liberation Front" as "a token of my shame and sorrow." Next it was the U.S. Treasury's turn, and they announced a violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Which didn't mean Kent could pocket the $10,000, because an American can't take rubles out of Russia anyway...
Last week his judgment was already being vindicated. As shame followed the orgy, the zoo was flooded with sympathetic phone calls and letters. Most of the missing animals were smuggled back under coats and in lunch pails. Children began policing one another's behavior. A pair of eight-year-old girls rang doorbells and collected $14.39, which they sent in with a note of apology, saying that "hopefully, most children are taught kindness and gratitude for the love and beauty of God's creatures." "The contrast is unbelievable," said Seattle Park Superintendent Edward Johnson...
...that many Jews permitted themselves to be murdered by the Nazis without significant resistance, and that a good number of the others sent their fellow slaves to death in order to save their own lives. Steiner, whose Parisian father perished in a concentration camp, says that he felt "the shame of being one of the sons of this people." He interviewed survivors from the Treblinka death factory in Poland to re-create the horror that befell 700,000 Jews...
Judge Johnson would make an excellent Supreme Court Justice, but it would be a shame to take him away from his Alabama district, where he has done such a magnificent...