Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shame on You, a wordy, rambunctious number that evokes early Springsteen, Ray sings of restlessly driving the roads only to be stopped by police "looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...
Your report was an affront to decency in general and the troubled family unit in particular. Amid a world in chaos, as America's moral fiber continues to fray and its societal underbelly softens, you place on your cover a glorification of unnatural sexual behavior. Shame on you, TIME! JACK E. SHULER Londonderry, New Hampshire...
...Whatever plan of general education we have should include some sort of quantitative reasoning requirement," he says. "The current one doesn't work. It's a shame...
...professors say that they try to teach their students that poetry is not innately arcane or inaccessible and that there is no shame in asking questions...
When an audience member asked about second generation African-American children unable to speak their parents' native language, Soyinka said, "I think it's a shame." But, he cautioned, "Having said that, ebonics is not the answer...