Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more remorseful was one of Segretti's Florida agents, Martin Kelly, 24, a Miamian. More articulate and politically savvy than the other two witnesses, he declared sadly: "Any shame or abuse that can be heaped on me is certainly well deserved." Kelly did, however, relate one of the few lighthearted tricks of the campaign. He said he had offered a University of Florida coed $20 to run naked past a hotel where Muskie was staying and to shout: "Muskie, I love you!" To his surprise, she did so. Quipped the normally solemn Senator Joseph Montoya: "You must have...
There is no shame in an opinion so ambivalent, for lack of greatness ought not to mean a forgotten fate. Over and over music lovers are subjected to the same round of classical symphonies. The Sullivan deserves hearing both for the perspective it would restore on the greatest works and for its own considerable intrinsic worth...
...court has a proper constitutional mandate, in Bork's view. But when it comes to school financing, he approves the Supreme Court decision last March that the Constitution does not require the state to balance spending in rich and poor school districts. "Everyone talks about what a shame it is that the Supreme Court failed to require the equalizing of public school expenditures," he says. "But nobody talks about whether the court is the proper body" to accomplish that...
Thus spak the PATRYK GRAY, a baldyng guye, "Ful wel I loved to serv the FBYe, But shame, I burnd the fyls and sore hav synnd And dizzy-grow from hangyn slow, slow in the wynd." Thys was the merrye crew, on TV cache. And who can say if cumen in impeache? Nor yet whych man will ansyr to what cry me? No oon can know, at Thysse Poynt in Tyme...
...neatness of an Irish Republican Army bullyboy and Davey's sudden realization that cleanliness and godliness don't always walk together. In World Without End, Amen, Breslin weighs in as a serious novelist, then takes himself too seriously. The narrative's bog-slogging pace is a shame, be cause Breslin clearly cares, and can teach much about people who seldom turn up in current fiction: frustrated cops, tiresome racists, lower-middle-class wives with horizons defined by mortgage payments and broken washing machines. Breslin knows this turf, but he seems to have taken his title too literally...