Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rejection. What often appeared as deviousness was a means to preserve his options in the face of inner doubt about his own judgment. Few men so needed to be loved and were so shy about the grammar of love. Complexity was his defense, a sense of inadequacy his secret shame, until they became second nature and produced what he feared most...
Basically, the author handles the elements of warfare as a physician would examine parts of the human body, without prudery or shame. The result could be one of the publishing sleepers of the season. For while most people do not like to openly discuss the facts of war, they are secretly fascinated by them. There is also the anxiety factor. Not since the nuclearwar shivers of the '50s, which peaked with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, has there been so much discussion about the possibilities of global conflict...
...tell what I believe to be the crux of the issue of abortion as it is peculiar to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. I am very sincere in my conviction that abortion needs to be taken out of the shadows to which it has been removed in fear and shame and from which recesses it can only be perceived of as guilt-ridden, treacherous and murdering and which for the woman who has chosen abortion have become a series of stopping places on an arduous journey toward continued self-doubt...
Abortion is not an issue that needs to be discussed in a political context at Harvard Radcliffe. Here at Harvard-Radcliffe, abortion is a story about a few months of fear, a few days of doubt, a few hours or minutes of pain, and years and years of shame and guilt and ghosts. It is about any woman who forgets to take her pill or use her diaphragm or when her period comes; who makes a mistake or suffers a freak of chance. It is not question of stupidity so much as of ignorance, an ignorance on the parts...
...private anguish of cash woman cuts her off from any relief as she retreats further and further into her own shame, imposing a double exile; her own and the world's What is left these people who have chosen to continue rather than to interrupt and redirect their lives, is a bewilderment of absolute intensity. The incident goes deeper and deeper until there is only in their lives this sharp hart which is felt as a sadness that seems to have no cause, that haunts them, that gives them throughout a sense of somewhere having failed, of always being under...