Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shame that Bendix Corp. [Oct. 6] Vice President and Chief Corporate Planner Mary E. Cunningham's qualifications as a magna cum laude undergraduate and Harvard M.B.A. graduate are underplayed just because she is rated a "10." If the water-cooler gossips would quit gossiping, maybe their cups would overflow...
Unfortunately, as one of their number notes, there is noticeable pressure not to over-achieve, not to push yourself mentally beyond the limits you have already discovered. "That's certainly a shame, since we are at MIT, and we're supposed to be testing ourselves...
...Florida urged that Myers be expelled because "the integrity of the House of Representatives is at stake." Argued New York Democrat Jonathan Bingham: "It is immaterial whether or not there has been a final conviction. He was selling his services for a substantial sum of money. Myers has brought shame on himself and on this House . . . To take any lesser action than expulsion would, I'm afraid, be further proof to our disillusioned young people that Congress protects its own and condones influence peddling...
...Greeks placed man in a precarious magnetic field between what is aspiring, rational, noble and demigodlike in his nature and raw, tameless instinctual drives that would shame the beasts. That is the thematic core of The Bacchae. But the dramatic spring, common to ancient tragedy, is a test of implacable wills. A man pits himself against a god, a no-win situation. Man's hubris is crushingly rebuked by the divine imponderable, necessity. The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom...
American Express, meanwhile, is advertising in its Christmas catalogue an auto that puts the fictional solid-gold Cadillac to shame-a two-seat DeLorean sports car electroplated in 24-karat gold. Cost: $85,000. A new company founded by former General Motors Executive John DeLorean will build the car in Northern Ireland. Gushes the American Express ad: "The car of the future is so spectacular that it surpasses the imagination...