Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it is high time that the blame for our domestic problems be placed where it belongs -not on any one man but on the people of this country. Blame the politicians who are willing to sit and do nothing constructive, just point a finger and say shame. Blame the industrial men who worship profit only -responsibility to the consumer and a quality product be hanged-and contrive shortages to further their own ends. Blame the farmers who cry poverty, and the union leaders who use the public to feed their super egos but haven't the true sense...
...contribute $250 annually for upkeep, including a full-time ground keeper. "We are down to 40 members," laments Executive Committee Member John Cucci, a wealthy Newport Beach real estate investor. "All of this Watergate stuff has made some people nervous, I guess." Adds Richard: "It's just a shame that such an open, innocent gift as we made should be held in any sort of suspicion. After all, we are all relatively honest businessmen...
...alcoholic, red-baiting Senator who has succeeded in terrorizing the entire country. Joseph N. Welch is not quite as good as Spencer Tracy would have been in the role of the New England lawyer who puts an end to the foolishness ("Senator, at long last, have you no shame?"), but Tracy reportedly wanted too much money for the part. Cameo performanced by Robert F. Kennedy, Roy Cohn, and G. David Schine (who grew up to be executive producer of The French Connection and make a zillion bucks) add sparkle to an otherwise lackluster cast. Channel...
...alcoholic, red-baiting senator who has succeeded in terrifying the entire country. Joseph N. Welch is not quite as good as Spencer Tracy would have been in the role of the New England lawyer who puts an end to the foolishness ("Senator, at long last, have you no shame?"), but Tracy wanted too much money. Cameo performances by Robert F. Kennedy, Roy Cohn, and G. David Schine (who grew up to be executive producer of The French Connection and make a zillion bucks), add sparkle to an otherwise dull cast. Channel...
...further and further from living memory, as each succeeding generation of children grows more sophisticated in its tastes, it seems likely that the Disney organization will gradually have to change the formulas for its line of plastics. That would be no bad thing, for it has always seemed a shame that this magnificent machinery, with its enormous potential for excitement and won der, should confine itself to the middle and lower cultural ranges. It would be delightful to see it run risky and frisky - the way it did when everyone called its founder "Walt" instead of "Uncle Walt." · Richard...