Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amanda P. Williams '96, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance, says it is a "shame" that the council has become so politicized, and adds that PUCC will only make things worse...
...shame, because we out-played them," Kohler said. "For the first 30 minutes we dominated the game, and the defense played very well. We missed several chances...
Ironically, for all the present sensitivity over correctness, we seem to have lost our sense of shame as a society. Nothing seems to embarrass us; nothing shocks us anymore. Spend time switching channels on daytime television, and you will find a parade of talk shows serving up dysfunctional people whose morally vacant behavior offers the worst possible models for others. None of this mass voyeurism is more offensive to me than the use of black "guests" by talk-show producers, reinforcing the most demeaning racial stereotypes. At least in the old days of Amos 'n' Andy, Amos was happily married...
...sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. I remember how easy it was for my mother to snap me back into line with a simple rebuke: "I'm ashamed of you. You embarrassed the family." I would have preferred a beating to those words...
...TAYLOR Public shame of aborted perfume launch is happily overshadowed by latest marital split...