Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Cho had left his own epitaph: "Twenty-second day, sixth month, 20th year of Showa era. I depart without regret, fear, shame or obligation. Age on departure 51 years...
...legalism, bewildered by sentences such as one from the debate last week: "The Council can only discuss whether a dispute can be discussed and can only investigate whether it would be investigated." The charter draft showed the effect of this sort of talk. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve thought it a shame that the Pre amble, at least, was not rid of legal writing so that it would be an inspiration to the world. Fraser agreed. He suggested that the Preamble be given to Poet Archibald MacLeish, Assistant Secretary of State, so that he could imbue it with "life and soul...
...normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising, unreasonable customs and conventions, he is almost certain to develop a rigid, uncompromising tyrant of a conscience...
...Queen's Lover. It was the beginning of the most colorful period of Sickles' astonishing life. His wife, who had slowly died of shame, sorrow and tuberculosis, was carried to her grave by four embarrassed major generals. Sickles arrived in Madrid a free, amorous, impetuous man. His government hoped he could persuade impoverished Spain to sell Cuba to the United States-a deal that could be put through only by a stable, efficient Spanish government. To get advice, Sickles promptly visited Spain's recently deposed Queen Isabella, whose son, Alfonso, aspired to the shaky throne...
With all the value that is being put today on avoiding escapism in the theatre, it seems a shame to condemn a drama which aims ostensibly to treat one of the touchiest of all real topics--death in war. But until some honest playwright can break away from fantastic treatment and false emotionality--to say nothing of avoiding poor casts and stupid dialogue--the stage might just as well stick to musicals and farces...