Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago a New York Times editorial described the trial of "the Chicago Seven" as "the shame of American justice"-and many Americans agreed. Last week Rubin, 37, now promoting his newest book, Growing (Up) at 37, confessed in a guest column in the Chicago Sun-Times, courtesy of Columnist Bob Greene, that he and his co-defendants were "guilty as hell. Guilty as charged." Explained Rubin: "Let's face it. We wanted disruption. We planned it." But, added Rubin, " 'guilty' does not mean 'wrong...
...their families is part of what one Tokyo newspaper calls the "peanuts elegy." Marubeni was the company accused of handing out the "peanuts"-local slang for bribery packets-in Japan's Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 16). Anybody connected with the disgraced corporation is subject to a kind of shame by association...
...wall." Theologically, the old liturgy "evolved into a rite of fear and guilt, emphasizing sin more than God's love and mercy," says Father John Tivenan of St. Catherine of Sienna Church in St. Albans, N.Y. The new rite is "a celebration rather than an unearthing of shame...
...Shame. State Department officials were angered by some of Nixon's foreign policy pronouncements. Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays claimed that Nixon had gone to China "to hurt President Ford in New Hampshire." Syndicated Columnist David Broder angrily forswore a promise made to himself not to write another word about Richard Nixon. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do in order to salvage for himself whatever scrap of significance he can find in the shambles of his life," wrote the normally even-tempered Broder. "Nothing shames him." The harshest attack came from Goldwater, who claimed...
...government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey had to act," said the mass-circulation Daily Mirror...