Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently have not studied psychology. Unemployment is demoralizing. People become alienated because they are no longer sharing the load. They are doubtful about themselves and their future; many feel rejection, shame and guilt. The employed too are affected by high unemployment. Their jobs become less secure. They are expected to do more, for if they don't, there is always some unemployed person who can and will take their place and work for less money...
...abortion stand influenced some, busing and school desegregation, which have stirred anti-black sentiment in many Catholic urban neighborhoods, may be the biggest factor in the continuing drift toward the G.O.P. For example, despite Carter's determined efforts to woo Italian votes ("I think it's a shame that someone of Italian background has never been appointed to the Supreme Court"), more than 55% of the Italian vote went to Ford. In the 24th Ward of St. Louis, a predominantly Italian, blue-collar area where 7,000 of the 9,000 voters are Catholic, Carter...
...true. Before starting up the Writing Center, he asked 12 members of the faculty what their expectations were for students' papers. Most of them said they wished students would put more of themselves into their writing. "The faculty wanted to see more passion," Weinstein said. "It is really a shame that students think otherwise...
...handful of dirt farmers in some rural backwater, or before a throng of urban humanity screaming his name, and hearing their response, not from their mouths but from the computer printouts of a hundred opinion surveys, after the exhilaration of a heartfelt speech, warmly received, and the magnified shame of a few mistaken words, after the victories of the primaries and the defeat on November 2, Gerald Ford is finally left in solitude to remember each day and relive it again, and wonder what went wrong...
...Amnesty Internation's world headquarters in London described Amnesty International's tactics as politics of shame--a polite, diplomatic way of gaining prisoners' release," Ellsworth said...