Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they got no shame...
...they got no shame?" reads a sign on the blackboard in the second floor room in Mass Hall. The sign is red chalk, and against the slate smooth surface of the blackboard resembles a question written in dried blood, a dead man's last words...
...they got no shame?" that is the basic question here. April rain falls in the windless chill of the night outside. A picket line, chanting, marches to the song on the loud speaker. "For God's sakes, you gotta give more power to the people," the song goes, and the pickets, no longer a mere line of defense against the potential bust of Mass Hall, chant on rhythm: "Soul Power! Give More Power to the People," Clenched fists, black and white, thrust up into the rain. "Ain't they got no shame...
However, the current condition is a hollow truce and not a resolution. As it is on the blackboard of the second floor storeroom, the fundamental question here, "Ain't they got no shame?" is still unanswered...
...refusal only heightened public concern abroad for Solzhenitsyn, who, seemingly undaunted, sent a telegram to the Swedish Academy. "Dear Gierow," he cabled. "The refusal of a visa means a ban against the presentation. Do not be sad. We can postpone it for many years. It is a shame, but not ours. I embrace...