Word: shame
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...really is a shame and, quite frankly, not very much in the holiday spirit...
...well as in human attitudes in America. He is proof that what seemed almost unthinkable yesterday is now possible. Visiting the South in the mid-'50s, I confronted racism not only in the streets but also in the courts. The law itself was racist, ugly, inhuman. I felt shame. Now, 50 years later, America is proud...
...Fisher's struggle with addiction and manic depression. Wishful Drinking is her attempt to gather up a lifetime of memories scattered by electroshock therapy. At one point, she describes being admitted to a locked ward during a psychotic episode. She signed her commitment papers with a single word: shame. It's one of the few paragraphs in Wishful Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there to cover up. Ironically...
...slow process, but I do think there’s a role for the federal government to play,” he said. “The fact that in 2008 most doctors’ offices and hospitals are still paper-based is really a shame and is unacceptable...
...There is no doubt that these people and many others who could contribute greatly exist somewhere inside the campus. But it is a shame that so many of you remain inside the campus, away from the Allston community, and relatively uninvolved with the monumental transformation of Harvard and Allston that will come as Harvard plans for and develops the 300 plus acres that it has purchased over the last decade...