Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lincoln Memorial, with its huge, Zeus-like figure of the dead President by Daniel Chester French? Yet from there to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial--a focus of intense collective feeling and reverence today, but bitterly denounced by many a flag-wagging conservative as "a black gash of shame"-- there has scarcely been a significant American public sculpture commemorating things Americans care about that hasn't excited fierce opposition, usually in the name of patriotism and values...
...cocks will make things worse. We in the West have not the will, the manpower nor the sense to stop those at war in the region. Can anybody defend the actions taken by the Balkan warlords or the useless talk by NATO members and the U.N.? Can't we shame those "leaders" into behaving like humans? ROLF JAMES Toronto...
Midway into the fourth week of school, I was lunching alone when the social creme de la creme of the first-year class sat down across from me. I waited for her usual entourage to surround me, prepared to dine in shame. No one came. She pulled out a tiny red book of poetry and waited for me to say "Hi I'm Curtis." After pausing for a moment to consider the tacit offer, I picked up my tray and left...
Thanks in part to Judge Howard's no-nonsense, no-cameras approach, the proceedings moved briskly, putting the celebrated -- though admittedly more complicated -- murder trial on the other side of the country to shame. Both the prosecution and the defense took just 2-1/2 days to present their cases. There was no clear sign as to which way the jury would turn. Witnesses for both sides worked at cross purposes with the attorneys who had called them to the stand. Even the journalists covering the case were split on whether Smith was a bloodless murderer or a tragically lost...
...cyberspace tend to be strong civil libertarians and First Amendment absolutists. Some clearly believe that Time, by publicizing the Rimm study, was contributing to a mood of popular hysteria, sparked by the Christian Coalition and other radical-right groups, that might lead to a crackdown. It would be a shame, however, if the damaging flaws in Rimm's study obscured the larger and more important debate about hard-core porn on the Internet...