Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's biggest problem could be combatting the anticipation of Friday's Penn Relays. As Northeastern's Coach Cohen said yesterday, "the relays are like the world series of track." It is a shame that Boston's biggest meet would have to fall so close to the Philadelphia encounter...
...shame that every member of Congress does not have the nerve to take a public stand on the question of amnesty for draft dodgers and deserters before this year's elections are over...
Even back in 1969, when Vietnam and domestic violence made the issues more immediate than ever, the Faculty was less concerned with confronting the issues the strikers raised than with pacifying what they felt was a bunch of disruptive malcontents. Both the proof and the shame of this is that the Faculty began to whittle away at the reforms the strikers won as soon as it sensed a decline in student militancy...
Steffens did so with an ambition and energy that had not been apparent during a boyhood largely spent riding horseback in the California countryside. By 1904 Steffens was one of the nation's best-known journalists. The Shame of the Cities, a book based on his exposes of big-city corruption, helped arm the short-lived reform movement whose grinning figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt. "The man with the muckrake" is what T.R. (borrowing from Pilgrim's Progress) called Steffens, thus giving generations of crossword-puzzle workers the nine-letter word muckraker...
...SHAME that more people aren't going to see Zardoz. Perhaps homosexual rape and man's battle against nature ring more resonantly than sci-fi satire in the vacuous American psyche: No other hypothesis can account for the low popularity of John Boorman's latest film, which is almost as exciting and far more provocative than the same director's excellent and well-received Deliverance...