Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases of sexual harassment, open season will remain on women undergraduates Indeed, the only lesson a potential harasser can draw from the Walcott case is that the College will stand by him steadfastly, and that it is his victim who will have to ask anonymity to hide the shame of the entire incident Harvard clings tightly to its tradition of imbuing its students with knowledge--sometimes even in the biblical sense...
...feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...
...applaud the U.S. Catholic leadership for the courageous stand it has taken against nuclear weapons. The position of the Catholic bishops only aggravates my shame over the bishops of the United Methodist Church, who either do not see the moral dilemma of the American Christian regarding nuclear weapons or are so cowardly that they refuse to speak...
...their own profligacy by shackling the players, who are threatening to strike. The Yankees have promised to pay Dave Winfield something like $20 million for ten years of play. Angell mourns: "The top salary figures, whatever their explanation, are beyond ignoring and beyond rational defense, for they deform and shame the sport...
...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...