Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday, a haggard but alert Trudeau read a nationally broadcast statement to officials and reporters gathered on Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottowa, blasting the FLQ as "a band of murderers" and adding, "I cannot but feel, as a Canadian, a deep sense of shame that this cruel and senseless act could be conceived in cold blood and executed in like manner...
...such excellent goalies," Wilmot said, "it's a shame they can't both be playing...
...control over his own florid style. The recordings which he made with the Halle during his decades of association with it are some of the finest in the literature. The Mahler First Symphony which he did with them for Vanguard is a definitive version, a masterpiece which puts to shame such recordings as the Leinsdorf version with the Boston Symphony, or Ormandy's frivolous attempt to incorporate the Blumine Movement into the work. His recordings of Mahler and Vaughan are all first rate, and many of them are the generally accepted standard versions. Yet, for all the accomplishments of Barbirolli...
Inevitably, the women had their detractors. The San Francisco Chronicle's Count Marco called the strike "a day of infamy and shame" and urged his supporters to wear black armbands "mourning the death of femininity." Boston marchers filed past counterdemonstrators carrying signs saying "Hardhats for Soft Broads." In Los Angeles, H.O.W. (Happiness of Womanhood) members paraded posters proclaiming "Communists Have Done It Again" and "Women's Lib Is a Society of Man-Eaters...
West's playfulness is of the highest order. Like Homo ludens, man the naturally playful animal, he exercises imagination to create something where there was nothing. In doing so, he puts pity to shame and makes empathy seem hermetic and inadequate. Words for a Deaf Daughter is an act of love, not merely its expression. It is also a work of art, the vision of the loved object widening beyond adoration into new ways of seeing the world...