Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more keyed up than the normally voluble Ferraro, who adopted a measured, almost subdued tone. Bush nearly squandered his debate performance, however, by refusing to back away from his erroneous assertion that his Democratic opponents had said that American Marines killed by terrorists in Beirut had "died in shame." He was overheard claiming that he had "tried to kick a little ass" in the debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently in the belief that it would add macho to his preppie image. All this led Columnist Joseph Kraft, who has admired Bush, to write, "Unless the real George...
...Mondale, acutely aware of his "wimp" image, used the words tough or strength 25 times during the second debate. Reagan incessantly used sports metaphors: "Isn't it great to see America scoring touchdowns again?" When George Bush accused the Democratic ticket of saying that American Marines died "in shame" in Lebanon, Mondale denied it and said Bush didn't have "the manhood" to apologize. Bush, who merits consideration for the Ernest Hemingway Moveable Feast Invidious Braggadocio Trophy this year, replied, "I'll lay my record on any forum, whatever it is, on the manhood, up against...
...early October, the strip's eponymous character, Mike Doonesbury, now an advertising executive, was instructed to sell President Reagan to blacks. His reaction: "This is a test, right? To see if I have any shame?" The character then called Reagan "the worst thing to happen to civil rights in 35 years." Asked during a meeting with newspaper editors whether he agreed with some readers that the gibes were unfair, the President replied, "I read every comic strip in the paper. I have to tell you that I think some of your readers are absolutely right...
However, one Democrat who crashed the party courtesy of a GOP pal said that "actually, we think it's a shame. We don't agree with his policies," said Angela B. Nahl '85. Her companion, David E. Ruiz '83-5, said, "I was hoping that Mondale would win, and we could celebrate in front of a lot of Republicans...
...gentle reader, what have we done! What have we done, that sex, and the sacred, awful communion should have become degraded into a thing of shame, excused only by the accident of procreation, or the perversion of spiritual union. It is no spiritual union. It is the living blood-soul in each being . . . What have we done, that men and women should have so far lost themselves, and lost one another, that marriage has become a mere affair of comradeship, 'pals,' or brother-and-sister business, or spiritual unison, or prostitution...