Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hicks: I think the first competition is always the hardest and I just did it in a moment of boldness, or perhaps a lack of shame. I had also been encouraged by a big group of friends from Harvard and MIT, some of whom I came with that night. I knew a lot of the people in the audience--the Monday night regulars, a mixed crowd of gays, straights and bisexuals...
...heart or his will: when he became Speaker, he promised he would remake the world in the first 100 days. The first thing most voters learned about Clinton was how hard it was to kill him, as he slogged through New Hampshire in 1992, no voice, no sleep, no shame, swatting away his enemies on his bare-kneed crawl to the White House...
...like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...
...first half of the century. Enormously popular in Victorian times (he was Queen Victoria's favorite composer), today his only universally recognized piece is the "Wedding March" from his "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Most people do not know it was Mendelssohn who wrote it, which is quite a shame. Mendelssohn and his music were often described as precocious and charming. His work is lyrical, stylish and elegant, beautiful in any century...
What follows would shame the gods, if any were paying attention. Here's the mother, back in the U.S., in old age: "Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver...