Word: shame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, and even if a large number of jobs are created, a lot of people in the community will still be relatively poor and unhappy about it. "I think it's a shame that we'll be starting off by just putting in a couple of new parks," sighs one consultant. He concedes that there are more direct ways to deal with poverty-like giving poor people money through a negative income tax--but he insists that physical renewal and comprehensive planning is a good idea anyway. "Just about every community in this country could use planning like this...
...interesting assessment of the presidential hopefuls. I thought the description of Rockefeller especially apt. It would be a shame if a man of his proved ability and statesmanship were overlooked on the basis of an event in his personal life, the details of which the public is (rightfully) ignorant about...
...would be a great shame to miss this exhibit at the Fogg Art Museum, for it is one of the best exhibits of it kind ever assembled. Indeed, one of the most important functions of art is to give insights into nature, particularly human nature; and inasmuch as a large part of that nature is irrational, photography can convey feelings that words, bound by rational structure, cannot. You have to see these pictures to feel them...
...religion in the Western sense. Confucian teaching is not concerned with metaphysics. As the Master once told his disciples: "Till you have learned to serve men. how can you serve spirits?" In the Confucian view, man is essentially good-which is why the Chinese have a sense of shame but not of sin. To stay good, he needs moral guidance, and to provide it is the essence of Confucianism...
...Shrew. The screen credits maintain the mock-the-bard tone: script billing goes to Zeffirelli, Paul Dehn and Suso Checchi D'Amico, with a coy acknowledgment "to William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words." The irreverence in this case is less a shame than a sham. Despite the disclaimer, Zeffirelli has succeeded in mounting the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier's Henry...