Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could scarcely force the plea between his chattering teeth. He was glazed with sweat. ". . . His body assumed without shame the very shape of fear. In his cringing motions, however, there were indications of an extreme fineness of intellect, unfoldings of a lacework of perceptions, of associations, of interpretations, which made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple unimproved beech-mast of the world. No matter how he stooped and wavered, out of his head proceeded mental patterns intricate and brilliant as the etchings of frost on a winter pane. Surely the others, the Nazi-Fascists, were...
...Shame on Radioman Ratner. . . . Does radio aspire no higher than the "judgment of the majority of adult Americans?" No wonder I enjoyed it much more when I was in high school...
...nominate Yehudi Menuhin. This artist has shown by his words and actions such a sane outlook upon the affairs of this world that he puts to shame the managers of our international life. He teaches a lesson that . . . tolerance is a two-way street-that the hand of friendship must be stretched out to all men of good will-and not only to those that you particularly approve...
...your correspondent is presenting the straight goods, and I believe he is, then I, as one of this country's well-meaning, nonthinking citizens, bow my head in shame...
...would take a Freudian to detect what shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...