Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shame on you for your Essay on discrimination [July 25]! Using such trivial examples to deal with a most important issue: equal rights. I suspect that the editors of TIME are simply uncomfortable with social changes already accomplished -especially those that are a result of affirmative action programs and the push for women's rights and gay rights...
That evening over our pasta we watched Nixon's resignation speech on the news. There was no pity for this broken leader; he had fallen before we were born. The Italians at the table watched our reactions. We showed no shame for Nixon--this man was as politically remote from us as the distance between Tarquinia and Washington--but on the other hand we drew no elation from watching the president take responsibility for screwing the democratic system, but point the blame elsewhere...
...analgesics is $720 million a year, and competing manufacturers have shed almost all advertising restraints in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of buyers. At times they have made claims that are exaggerated, misleading or downright false. The battle of words has, in fact, become openly aggressive ("Tylenol, shame on you!" scolds a Bayer ad). The Federal Government, which began to crack down on deceptive advertising of over-the-counter drugs by pharmaceutical companies in 1972, is now threatening other measures as well...
...analytic philosopher from Oxford, adopted a still more gloomy view, calling government "a necessary evil" that "allows for tyranny by the collectivity over the individual." Quinton also mocked Adler's belief that all want to share in government by voting. "I vote out of a sense of shame," said Quinton, adding that he looked upon the vote as if it were a life jacket on a ferry boat. "I want the right to use it if something happens...
...time by the death of God's son, Jesus Christ, on the Cross. "When Christ atoned for sin, He stood in the place of guilty men and women," Graham writes. "If God had forgiven sin by a divine decree, without the atonement which involved the personal shame, agony, suffering and death of Christ, then we might assume that God was indifferent to sin. Consequently we would all go on sinning and the earth would become a living hell...