Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Grays, a professor of philosophy at MIT who has revealed his homosexuality to students and colleagues, said for him an important effect of gay liberation was personal self-acceptance, with pride replacing shame or fear of oppression...
...shame that the press tried to make Solzhenitsyn a hero. Just as it glossed over his politics, it trivialized his ordeal. It reduced patriotism and exile to clumsy propaganda. The suicide of his friend, Yelizaveta Voronyanskaya, who told the KGB where to find the author's manuscripts, became a spy movie stereotype in which the Russian Nasties smashed the Closet Capitalists. In short, by blowing Solzhenitsyn beyond proportion and then dropping him from sight, the press created a hero who cannot inspire us and obscured the human being who might otherwise have moved...
...started after a day of near-record temperatures, the threat of no ice before the contest because of problems with the compresser, and a noisy, rowdy Providence cheering section that put the Crimson fans to shame. Harvard stood around on the soft ice and watched as the Friars grabbed the only three goals they would get all evening...
...your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
...though the defeat in South Bend was the first time Walton had been on the losing side in six years of play. Afterward, when he heard that Wooden's wife Nell had been harassed by a group of Notre Dame supporters, Walton said quietly, "It's a shame how some people forget that basketball is just a game...