Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies bring to the poor women of Boston...
Schahriah, it is told, was enchanted by the stories. But many moons later -- last week -- the judges of Cairo were enraged by the erotic tales. They said 3,500 copies of two unexpurgated editions of The Arabian Nights must be destroyed. For shame, cried many a citizen of Cairo. "If they forbid all works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned...
...which he builds his body count to inestimable levels are well designed and well executed by Director Cosmatos. They are, in fact, so compelling that one tends to chortle in anticipation of Rambo's next superhero ploy, exploding with glee when it exceeds expectations. Oh, well, time enough for shame later, whispers a conscience befuddled by all the noise and excitement...
...understand that a dean of the University was present in an official capacity at the Lowell House meeting, this I think was a mistake on Harvard's party not because it lends dignity to South Africa, something nothing can do, but because it heaps shame on the college. Violence against the person of the diplomat, however, is at least as shameful...
...going to have an opportunity to speak to several thousand young people about high school age, and I am really looking forward to it because I found out that that generation of younger Germans is unhappy. They are pessimistic. They know that they have to feel this shame about what their country did, when they didn't have anything to do with it. And then, coupled with that, what hope is there for them? I am going to try to tell them something about the job that their country has done and that there is hope...