Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last October's dedication of the K-School library, Smith criticized Harvard for accepting a donation in the name of Charles W. Engelhard and called the proposed naming of the library after Engelhard a "travesty and a damn shame...
Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for its price, putting it back... Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming...
Awkwardness. Embarrassment. Gradual. . . shame. The eyes start to bulge. The body tries to move, but the feet stay still. He runs in place from the waist up. Perspiration starts to form on the upper lips. There is just the suggestion . . . yes . . . a smile. But it is camouflage, a thin subterfuge hiding disorientation, incipient humiliation, blind panic...
...think the naming of a library in this school which is to train leaders, functionaries and workers in this country, a library of public affairs named after Charles W. Engelhard, is a travesty and a damned shame," Smith said...
THAT ONE CAN QUIBBLE so much with Halberstam is a real shame, because his talent as an interviewer and reporter gushes from every page like Old Faithful. From interviews with The Washington Post's Kay Graham, among others, Halberstam has drawn an engrossing and remarkably full account of her husband Philip's manic-depression and tragic suicide in 1963. From Dorothy "Buff" Chandler, he elicited the real reason her husband Norman dropped Robert Taft in 1952 to go for Ike--Buff simply refused to sleep with Norman until he came around. From friends and colleagues of Ed Murrow, Halberstam relates...