Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hide my head in shame to think that I ever criticized the people of the South for racial prejudice, when every day I find the same disgraceful practice being carried on in this very state...
...plight of the pretty young daughter of a well-digger who finds herself with child by the handsome son of the local hardware merchant, shortly after that worthy departs for the wars. The attitude of her father, an honest, independent man of simple and intense feelings, changes from shame at the slight on his family name to pride in his newborn grandson. Similarly, the cool indifference and suspicion displayed by the young man's parents toward the well-digger and his daughter is changed, upon the receipt of a false report of his death, into friendship and love...
...will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not broad-minded and liberal ; he will identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error; he will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution ; he will...
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
This phenomenon can be traced most directly to James Stewart's performance and Frank Capra's direction. Stewart, as a fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost never get that sadistic hope which a saint-like character usually brings on, that overwhelming wish to see him kick an old woman down a flight of stairs or short-change a small boy. Instead, you like him as much as you like the worst heel Bogart ever played...