Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I talk civilly to them? How can I have gone to dinner with the past head of the Government Department, sipped my wine and listened to his jokes about the foibles of certain professors-and to his arguments for kicking my friends out of school? The shame I feel at belonging to the same species as the men who thought up our little adventure in Indochina is bad enough, but to think that I actually enrolled in a school that trains such beasts...
...mere passes and credits. The faculty, also going the ultimate-sacrifice route, let us. Although very few of us did anything much to fight against the war, we at least managed to think about it a whole lot for a few days. We took some small pride in our shame...
...Thank God for your cover story, "The Shame of the Prisons" [Jan. 18]. This could be the breakthrough that many of us who work in correction have been waiting for through years of discouragement and frustration...
...people stayed on welfare too long, and most thought that welfare departments had a right to check on clients and end aid if they found improprieties such as unreported income. Said Briar: "Welfare clients in general share the mores of the wider middle-class society about work and the shame of going on welfare...
...must every film that champions the Indian's cause end in his massacre? It's as if one could simply escape it all by admitting yes, we killed them, damn shame, unforgivable, but we're sorry nonetheless. Fade out. End of problem. And yet a few Indians do still exist in America, and even now they are making unheeded demands on this society. Why not concern ourselves with their reality? Why not a documentary on the appalling conditions found on government reservations? Or better yet, a film about the growing numbers of young Indian militants, like those that have taken...