Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawings by David Suter. This week's cover subject, the alarming growth and extent of personal violence, especially within families and among people who know each other, was another such opportunity. Says Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp: "We wanted to convey the sense of violence and violation, the shame and helplessness of being a victim, without horrifying the reader or sensationalizing the victims. Art work had the advantage of being able to distill the emotional impact and move it from the too realistic to the abstract...
...cause that was undeniably just. By peacefully assembling his masses in the nation's capital-and in front of network television cameras-he was able to enlist the sympathy of mainstream America almost in a single day and to win its support in finding remedies for the shame of racial discrimination...
...uncertainty about the scope of private violence is a function of shame, of hushing up. Such crimes, unlike slashings or shootings on sidewalks and in taverns, often leave a victim more hurt and humiliated than outraged. Historically, beatings by one's husband, like rapes, were bad enough to suffer but more shameful still to reveal publicly. Child-rearing, no matter how harshly executed, was an entirely private matter...
...insiders fear that the continuing Whoops mess could ultimately sour investors on the entire spectrum of municipal bonds. Says James Lebenthal, whose appearances in television commercials have made him America's most recognizable municipal bond dealer: "I feel threatened, and so does the whole industry. I feel the shame of Whoops...
...really a shame that our visit was overshadowed by what happened, especially because the people in Detroit are trying so hard to give the city a positive image," he said. Among other things, the group received free meals, t-shirts, and ice cream during the day-long stop, treatment not unlike that accorded the riders throughout their journey thus...