Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggesting, the pair have accorded themselves another lettered badge of shame--picture them cheerfully crowning one another with conical hats emblazoned with the letter 'D'. With this film they will make public life their prison; their tortures will be the jeers and abuse of their audience. Yet such pain pales in comparison with the cruel and unusual punishment they have inflicted on the movie-going public...
PUCC should have benefited from this distaste, as have several groups of would-be reformers over the past few years. Students are clearly in favor of a more accountable council and of a greater student role in administrative decisions. It is an ongoing shame that students lack a responsible, elected voice to articulate their interests before the administration on such issues such as the Core and the housing lottery...
...budget cuts take place, Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans is akin to Hitler's telling the Jews in Auschwitz that although conditions there were bad, things in Berlin were not so good either. The American Indians in our country need to rise up to oppose this betrayal. Shame on Senator Gorton, and shame on the U.S. government. JAMES MILLS Hanover, New Hampshire...
...adolescence madhouse enough--with sufficient confusion, shame and manic, grandiose-despairing energy of its own? The years from puberty to the first full-time job are a rough passage through which the child, if tough and lucky, evolves into a creditable, honorable, responsible grownup. You cannot light a candle in a high wind. What's needed for the development to occur is shelter, safety. A context of abstinence is the beginning of such shelter...
...interruptions of prior interruptions, can render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the frustration of feeling powerless to deflect an apparently inevitable slide toward shame and ruin. But Ryder's ordeal seems less malevolent than capricious. He is the benumbed victim of nothing more sinister than a patchy memory and a tight schedule. Why reproduce a free-floating nightmare when the real thing lurks each night for billions of people, unbidden and free of charge...