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Word: shame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this kind of abuse is hard to understand. For a leading university in the United States and in the world, it is unacceptable. It is time for straight people to realize that we must change. It is we who cause the suffering of gay people. Our attitudes cause guilt, shame, and loneliness, and our actions cause fear and alienation. As the majority, we can change the situation. Publicly, we must support gay rights. Privately, we must realize that we know gay people. Revising our attitudes, even in such small ways as how we refer to gays, will make them feel...

Author: By Nathan S. Szanton, | Title: When Your Best Friend Tells You He's Gay | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

With lots of blusher but no shame, the peacock profession of modeling gives face and body to our covetous dreams, then mocks us as we press our noses against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modeling the '80s Look: The Faces and Fees are Fabulous | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Steve Conliff, a Yippie from Columbus, Ohio, who was acquitted in 1977 of an assault charge after he threw a pie in the face of Ohio Gov. James Rhodes, said yesterday, "It was a shame" that all the protest groups could not get along together because "we've got our hands full with the police...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Amid Washington's Pomp, a 'Counter-Inaugural' | 1/21/1981 | See Source »

...need is love"-but a gun for your protection is also useful. Shame on you, America, shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1981 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...country had been an incubative conservative since the late '60s. Only Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world?derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies?fed up with all that, and to put a fine point on it, fed up with Jimmy Carter, what else would the nation do but hang a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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